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 Zend PHP to run on Windows Server 2008, Mar 04, 2008

PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) tools company Zend Technologies is announcing this week that its Zend Core product will run on the Windows Server 2008 platform, providing parity between Windows Server and Linux in running PHP.

Microsoft may make a habit of attacking open-source programming, but don't make the mistake of assuming the company has a monolithic loathing for the collaborative programming movement.

One key driver of free and open source software is the LAMP paradigm – cleverly named after the systems it embraces – Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. This powerful combination delivers high powered data-enabled web and intranet sites with a minimum of fuss. Here’s how to get started with PHP.

The PHP development team hereby announces that support for PHP 4 will continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4. We will continue to make critical security fixes available on a case-by-case basis until 2008-08-08.

Since its inception 11 years ago, PHP has been a language for the Web. Now with the release of the Zend Framework 1.0 today, PHP becomes a language for Web applications and Web services enterprise applications.

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.2 and availability of PHP 4.4.7.

Zend Technologies on Monday is expected to release an updated version of Zend Platform, its server software for running corporate Web applications written in PHP language.

PHP 5.2, the latest version of the popular open source scripting language, is set to be released this Thursday, Zend Technologies Co-Founder Andi Gutmans said on Tuesday.

Microsoft Corp. and Zend, a key supplier of tools used to design open-source software that competes with Microsoft Windows programs, said on Tuesday the two companies have struck a long-term partnership.

An article showed up in LXer's news queue that described how a business chose an Oracle solution over - get this - a PHP solution. Never mind that the article compares a database to a scripting language, but one can use Open Source PHP in conjunction with Oracle's non-free database system to write web applications. It just goes to show that we all need to know the difference between crap and shinola.

Most PHP developers use a Windows desktop to develop their code, but then turn to Linux when it comes time to deploy their apps. It's a situation that Microsoft is hoping to change

"The Web is pretty much broken, we can all go home now," Lerdorf said somewhat sarcastically to the capacity crowd. "Luckily most people don't realize that it's broken."

Power in computing has shifted from proprietary, Microsoft APIs to URLs on the Web and content provision, Google Vice President Adam Bosworth said during the Zend/PHP Conference & Expo on Friday.

The simplicity of scripting language PHP means it will be more popular than Java for building Web-based applications, Internet browser pioneer Marc Andreessen predicted Wednesday in a speech here at the Zend/PHP Conference.

Zend, a company that commercializes PHP, released a version on Tuesday that works with Oracle's database.

Internet visionary Marc Andreessen has taken an interest in PHP, an open source programming language some consider a threat to languages, such as Java and Microsoft's Active Server Pages and .NET.

Ten years ago this summer, Rasmus Lerdorf created the wildly popular Web-development language while working at the University of Toronto.

LAMP is less complex than J2EE or .Net, less costly and platform independent, he says. "It's just a really good architecture for developing robust and scalable applications than can run on any platform."

PHP Development Team is would like to announce the immediate release of PHP 4.4.0. This is a maintenance release that addresses a serious memory corruption problem within PHP concerning references

For years, the business-software development world has been split largely between Microsoft's .Net toolset and Java. Get ready for a third option.

Oracle and PHP tools maker Zend Technologies on Monday will announce plans to enhance open source PHP development on Oracle databases via a free package called Zend Core for Oracle.

Ease of use and no cost put the open source PHP Web scripting language on the map for developers. Now, the scalability and XML and Web services support of recently released PHP 5.0 puts it on the enterprise map, says Doron Gerstel, CEO of Zend Technologies, a PHP technologies services company.

In some ways, it is the scrappy contender versus the tested old-timer, as PHP and Perl duke it out to win developer attention. But more often, the two scripting languages get along just fine, thank you, and developers are glad to have both.

When you think of enterprise web applications, it’s only natural to think of J2EE and .Net. After all, these are the technologies most developers choose when implementing mission-critical apps. But as Friendster found out, the open source LAMP platform is a mature alternative that has a lot to offer, particularly for projects on a tight budget.

IBM is putting its corporate heft behind a popular open-source Web development technology called PHP, in a move meant to reach out to a broader set of developers.

THE PEOPLE at Zend Technologies quietly announced last week the availability of the long awaited PHP version 5. The rise of PHP - the open source, server-side web programming language that took the Net by storm starting in 1998 with its 3.0 release, seems to be unstoppable, if one believes the usage charts at php.net.

The PHP growth could be compared to the relentless growth curve of Apache, the open source web server of fame which now runs more than two thirds of the sites on the Web, according to the Netcraft Web Servers survey. That's hardly surprising, given that Apache and PHP work very well together.

PHP contains two critical bugs that could allow someone to take over a server and use a browser to run dangerous code, German IT security firm e-matters GmbH has warned.

PHP is the most popular scripting module on Apache servers and is enabled on at least half of all Apache servers, according to figures from SecuritySpace. The browsers affected are Explorer and Safari — accounting for virtually the entire market.

The PHP Group has announced this week the availability of PHP 5, the next version of the popular Web scripting language.

PHP, a little-known open-source scripting language, is becoming dominant on Web sites, according to Netcraft.com, the U.K. surveyor of the Web. And now Sun Microsystems has teamed up with a PHP toolmaker, Zend Technologies Ltd. Netcraft says PHP is found on 52% of the 14.5 million Apache-based Web sites that it inspected, compared with 19.4% using Perl, another open-source language. PHP and Perl are used to get disparate parts of a site to work together. PHP is used particularly in building dynamic pages that are produced in response to specific requests from a visitor, says Shane Caraveo, senior developer with ActiveState, a maker of tools for open-source and Microsoft scripts and a division of anti-spam software firm Sophos plc.

Zend Technologies, inventor and parent company of the popular open source PHP Web scripting engine, today will announce a major partnership deal with Sun Microsystems in a move that may well advance PHP's position in the major leagues of e-business.

The small, Israel-based company today will announce a new suite of products that integrates directly with Sun's newly branded Java System Web Server 6.1, formerly known as Sun ONE Web Server 6.1. As a result of this new partnership, Sun has enlisted a key ally in attracting the PHP development community to its server offerings.

After a lengthy QA process, PHP 4.3.3 is finally out! This maintenance release solves a fair number of bugs found in prior PHP versions and addresses several security issues. All users are strongly advised to upgrade to 4.3.3 as soon as possible.

Zend is actually a two-hat company: It develops for the open-source PHP product, and it develops its own commercial tools. Zend co-founder and chief technology officer Zeev Suraski is a core PHP programmer. The company is "very busy getting PHP 5 out the door," Young said. The upgrade will bring a new object model to PHP, making it a better platform for object-oriented development, Young said. "[The new version] also lays the groundwork for better interactivity with other platforms, such as J2EE and .NET," he noted.

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