[webmaven]

> I'd love to know what "they found other ways to solve their performance problems" wound up meaning in practice.

Me too, especially as this was already several years after the YouTube acquisition.

Also interesting to note that potential internal customers were put off by having to upgrade to 2.6.1 in order to use unladen-swallow (presumably they got over that reticence at some point, as 2.7 is now standard).