emurphy1
11-01-2006, 11:59 AM
Greetings from the heart of Silicon Valley! It's cloudy and cool, as it often is, in San Jose today. I thought I'd post some blog-like thoughts on the Zend PHP Conference I'm attending.
You may have already heard, but the 'big' announcment yesterday was the Zend and Microsoft partnership. The story, 75% of all PHP development is done on Windows but very little PHP is deployed on Windows. The vast majority of PHP running on web servers is running the traditional LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). Up to now, running PHP on Windows servers using IIS has been problematic. In general, its not reliable and does not perform well. So Zend is now working with MS to update Zend Core (a Zend certified PHP distribution) and the Zend Platform. Using both of these tools on a Windows/IIS server is supposed to make PHP peform well. The MS guys did a demo using the above, plus Vista and IIS 7 and showed stats at how fast it was while hammering IIS with a PHP load test tool. . It seems clear this is all part of Zend's push to get PHP into the 'Enterprise' (read corporate world).
Another interesting bit of news. It seems to me Zend Studio is not going to be around much more than another year or so. Zend is putting a lot of effort into developing a very good PHP IDE for Eclipse (announced earlier this year). Look for Zend to announce the Eclipse plugin to be their recommend tool for professional PHP development some time in 2007. Good news for those who are Eclipse fans.
Off to hear a talk on "Efficient development using PHP, JSON and AJAX". BTW, AJAX is very popular here, lots of PHP development using AJAX to offload some work from the server side of things and to improve the user experience.
You may have already heard, but the 'big' announcment yesterday was the Zend and Microsoft partnership. The story, 75% of all PHP development is done on Windows but very little PHP is deployed on Windows. The vast majority of PHP running on web servers is running the traditional LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). Up to now, running PHP on Windows servers using IIS has been problematic. In general, its not reliable and does not perform well. So Zend is now working with MS to update Zend Core (a Zend certified PHP distribution) and the Zend Platform. Using both of these tools on a Windows/IIS server is supposed to make PHP peform well. The MS guys did a demo using the above, plus Vista and IIS 7 and showed stats at how fast it was while hammering IIS with a PHP load test tool. . It seems clear this is all part of Zend's push to get PHP into the 'Enterprise' (read corporate world).
Another interesting bit of news. It seems to me Zend Studio is not going to be around much more than another year or so. Zend is putting a lot of effort into developing a very good PHP IDE for Eclipse (announced earlier this year). Look for Zend to announce the Eclipse plugin to be their recommend tool for professional PHP development some time in 2007. Good news for those who are Eclipse fans.
Off to hear a talk on "Efficient development using PHP, JSON and AJAX". BTW, AJAX is very popular here, lots of PHP development using AJAX to offload some work from the server side of things and to improve the user experience.