You should notice that 99% of current documentation is still valid for 0.6.2.
If you don’t like Propel you can use Doctrine.
With regard to being enterprise ready check out what Yahoo is doing with Symfony.
And finally if you don’t like PHP why on earth do you use it?

But knowing PHP developers there will always be lots of frameworks, just look at the world of PHP template engines to find that out.

Yes, but there is always a framework which 80% of developers use. Who ever use a framework, of course.

For example, if you are writing an administrative CRUD application to maintain the contents of numerous tables in a database rather than a fancy website, then you should take a look at http://www.radicore.org Starting with nothing more than a database schema you can generate and run a family of tasks to search, browse and modify a database table in 5 minutes flat, all without writing a single line of code (PHP, HTML or SQL).

I’m sure Zend Framework will be de facto standard and will beat all other frameworks in the future.

on-topic, rant mode on: you’re right, php is just a (somewhat primitive, poorly implemented, crippled for commercial reasons, but eventually easy to deploy and scale) language; it’s good that there are several frameworks, the problem is that I have yet to find one that doesn’t suck: Symfony, the “enterprise-ready” framework supported the 0.6.2 stable version for a few months, then the docs and the svn tag were wiped out (and don’t get me started on propel retardness), Cake wants me to write too much; the closest I’ve found to what I’d like is the Zend framework, which has a good library, gets a lot of things right, but has me writing way too much code for CRUD stuff.

Anyway, you make a good point about PHP. However, this does not attract me to ASP, it draws me towards Rails instead. I still use PHP though, lol.

I just felt it too restrictive on how I did things, that it clamped down on ingenuity.