Smart folks will test 6.0 to see how apps perform/behave and then wait till 6.1.
I beg to differ. Smart folks will test 6.0 and deploy it if performance
is
acceptable.
Guess you have never worked in an organization of any size where you worry about reliability, patches, bug fixes, etc.
How about acknowledging that each organization's requirements are different, and may well in fact differ depending on the circumstances?
Yes, in a lot of cases there can be problems with *.0 releases (not referring to CentOS in particular here, but software in general). Sometimes circumstances force your hand.
OMO, a good systems architect doesn't live in black-and-white world, but rather knows the influencing factors, has a wide selection of tools, picks the best solution available to the problem at hand, and tries to mitigate his risks.
Devin