Zend Technologies on Wednesday is shipping Zend Guard 4, enabling developers, businesses and ISVs to protect intellectual property in PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) code.
The product line features protection against reverse engineering of code while an application is being encoded. Zend Guard 4 is comprised of an encoder and a license manager, to protect the mass distribution of commercial PHP applications. Licenses can be modified or renewed without deploying new software, Zend said. Different license models, such as concurrent user or server-specific models, can be used.
A new interface features wizards to help encode applications and manage licenses. The product supports PHP 5.1.
Zend Guard 4 costs $995 for an annual subscription.
Posted by Paul Krill on April 11, 2006 12:06 PM
