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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / SEPTEMBER 15, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 37
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Breaking News - Operating Systems
& Middleware:
PHP Adoption Reaches Tipping Point
In Corporate United States
Growing adoption and legitimacy of Linux and Apache within enterprise
organizations is driving the proliferation of mission critical applications
written in PHP. Apache, now with over 63 percent server market share across
all domains and PHP, which accounts for roughly 26 percent of all domains on
the Internet, are now a genuine option for enterprises deploying mission
critical Web applications.
Zend, founded by the designers of the Zend Engine, the core of PHP, and the
leading provider of PHP productivity solutions, announced the release of Zend
Studio 3.0. After a successful month-long beta period, Zend Studio 3.0 brings
a feature rich Integrated Development Environment (IDE) designed specifically
for advanced professional Web developers building mission critical
applications in PHP, JavaScript and HTML. Zend Studio provides the tools
developers demand for PHP development and is already used by more than 18,000
developers in companies such as Bausch & Lomb, Siemens, Lycos Germany, Outback
Steakhouse and Deutsche Telekom.
Zend Technologies has been contributing to legitimacy and proliferation of
open source PHP since 1999 with initiatives such as the development of the
Zend Engine 2, authoring of PHP 5, the JSR initiative with Sun Microsystems
and most recently, the launch of the Studio 3.0. With this market knowledge
and experience, Zend has recognized the enterprise need for sophisticated, PHP
productivity tools. Zend Studio 3.0, now with support for PHP 5, significantly
faster performance, expert level debugger and project management tools, allows
enterprise developers to write robust, bug free code, rapidly develop mission
critical Web applications and seamlessly deploy and maintain their PHP
applications.
"The release of Zend Studio 3.0 now gives enterprises the support they need
to
adopt PHP for their mission critical, eBusiness applications," said Zeev
Suraski, co-designer of PHP and co-founder and CTO of Zend Technologies. "With
full support of PHP 5 including advanced editing, debugging and analysis of
PHP applications, Zend Studio allows enterprises to simplify the development
and maintenance of their applications, improve the quality of their
applications and shorten time to market. The upcoming release 5 is going to
make PHP even more attractive to big organizations, and strengthen its
position in the enterprise world as the scripting language of choice for
developing Web applications. The PHP 5 release, scheduled for the end of 2003,
meets the needs of the enterprise world, including a new powerful object model
and state of the art XML support."
"With the increasing complexity of PHP, professional developers need a tool
built specifically for PHP," said Jason Halla, Web applications developer for
The American Legion, and moderator of DevShed's PHP Forum. "If you are serious
about using PHP, Zend Studio is the only development environment with a
complete, PHP-centric feature set for the professional developer. With
integrated support for the much anticipated PHP 5 release, as well as stronger
XML integration, built-in code analyzer and a host of other excellent
features, Zend Studio 3.0 put the future of PHP at your fingertips today -- in
a faster, easier to use interface."
Zend Studio 3.0, a major upgrade to the already well-received Zend Studio
2.x,
enables professional developers to write robust, bug-free code with advanced
debugging tools including a remote debugger, debug URL and quick debug
directly from their browser. The innovative Code Profiler, which determines
which parts of the application are slowing down the project, and Code
Analyzer, which analyzes static source code and attempts to reconcile
problematic code, give PHP developers the tools to maximize their code quickly
and efficiently. Tools such as advanced code completion, JavaScript and HTML
support and customizable key maps speed time to market and improve coding
efficiency. Full version management and FTP integration, project and file
inspectors and advanced project management capabilities allow developers to
seamlessly maintain and deploy their PHP applications.
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