IBM and Zend Technologies have announced a deal under which the two will preload Zend's PHP-based Web stack on every shipment of IBM i software, the integrated operating environment for IBM Power Systems that was born as the AS/400 system. More than 22 million Internet domains deploy PHP, including Yahoo and Facebook. The PHP developer community is estimated to consist of about 5 million developers and the PHP application ecosystem features key applications such as the popular Drupal open-source content management system.Zend Technologies, which refers to itself as the PHP company, announced Feb.
5 that it is "teaming with IBM to
preload Zend's Web stack with every shipment of IBM
i software, the integrated operating environment for IBM
Power Systems, including all hardware that ships with IBM
i."
Zend continued in a news release, "Zend's PHP-based Web solution stack
lets customers Web enable IBM i assets and
includes support on IBM i for rapid
application development and Rich Internet Applications (RIAs)." With PHP, IBM
i users also gain access to the ecosystem of PHP applications and the professional
developer community Zend has helped garner, the company said.
"PHP is the most popular Web development language due to its ease of
use and enterprise-grade functionality," IBM
officials said. "More than 22 million Internet domains deploy PHP,
including Yahoo and Facebook." The PHP developer community is estimated to
consist of about 5 million developers and the PHP application ecosystem
features key applications such as the popular Drupal open-source content
management system.
IBM and Zend have an ongoing relationship
based around the Zend PHP platform. Back in July of 2005, IBM
and Zend announced the availability of Zend Core for IBM,
an integrated solution specifically designed to help developers deploy database
applications and services based on PHP. At the time, IBM
and Zend also announced that they were jointly working on furthering PHP
technology to include improved high-level database integration frameworks and
enhanced PHP Web services standards.
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