Zend & Oracle, Zend & IBM, Zend & PayPal, Zend & …
Today Zend and Oracle released the beta release for the “easy to install” Zend Core for Oracle. Why?
The combination of Zend Core for Oracle and Zend Network provide a seamless, out of the box, enterprise grade PHP environment, easing PHP application development and deployment with Oracle Database.
Basically you can use an Oracle database seamlessly with PHP (not to say you couldn’t before with some effort)
PHP is gaining strength; Zend is doing this by teaming up with big corporations – some examples:
- IBM And Zend Team To Drive Adoption Of Service Oriented Architectures With Zend Core For IBM
- Zend Collaborates With PayPal To Strengthen PHP Web Services
- Swsoft and Zend Form Technology Partnership
And most recently
All of these were initially announced a while back, but only recently starting to pick up steam with beta releases.
Overall it’s a positive move, but major corporations don’t like to share, and more often than not, want what they don’t (can’t) have. Furthermore, with PHP beginning to look more and more like JAVA, you just have to wonder.
In any case, this healthy competition fuels the language, which kick started my passion for web development.
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