What are the advantages of Codeigniter against frameworks as of zend, cakephp, and symphony?

[eluser]wiredesignz[/eluser]
@Solid9,

I doubt very much that Ellislab will transfer or sell CodeIgniter to anyone who could not prove that they could provide proper support for it.

CodeIgniter does not need to be rewritten. It performs perfectly fine as it is. It is still one of the fastest frameworks. You can even use namespacing with CodeIgniter if you're smart enough.

People need to get over this hype about frameworks and stop hoping that the newest thing out there will make them better coders. It won't.