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The major problem for people with the release of Drupal 6 was that the contributed modules were not ready and indeed some of the useful ones are still in alpha or beta state.

The uptake of Drupal 6 from launch took much longer than is should have due to modules not being available.

Newcomers to Drupal were confused with D6 being promoted as the current version and then finding out modules like cck were in alpha.

I think it's a mistake to release Drupal 7 with Drupal6 still lacking stability in regard to contributed modules.

I use Drupal commercially for high profile projects. Drupal 6 needs to gain stability before diluting efforts in another direction