October 31, 2006

Microsoft, Zend boost PHP for Windows

Server deployments enabled by interface, other efforts

Microsoft is not the first major software vendor to align with Zend. IBM also has worked with Zend to enable PHP deployments on IBM's Cloudscape and DB2 databases, via the Zend Core for IBM package.

Also at the conference:

** Zend is announcing an agreement with MySQL to boost integration between Zend products and the MySQL open source database.

** Zend is releasing an update to Zend Core for IBM, which implements support for DB2 Version 9 and Informix Dynamic Server 10.

** The latest pre-release of Zend Framework is being made available to provide a foundation for building Web sites based on the MVC (Model-View-Controller) pattern. Zend Framework also is being fitted with an implementation of Google's Gdata API, to provide a protocol for PHP applications to read and write data to and from Google applications such as Google Calendar.

** Version 5.5 of the Zend Studio IDE is being announced, featuring Java integration, support for Zend Framework, and improved source code management.

** Zend is announcing ZendBox, a hosted server for running the PHP 5 technology stack. Users can deploy solutions for operating PHP applications. ZendBox features hardware, an operating system, PHP 5 and utilities supported by Zend, and a partner network of hosting providers. Rackspace will be the first provider for ZendBox.

** Zend will note that the PHP Eclipse project is on track to be released in June 2007. The project is intended to provide a framework for PHP developers for the Eclipse platform.

Paul Krill is an editor at large at InfoWorld.
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