
“GE, Fox Interactive, and lots of companies are looking at PHP simply because it’s a better technology for them to do these Web-facing apps.” Zend’s Mitchell agreed: “PHP is really gaining a lot of ground in real companies,” he said. Net/Java mind-share hegemony has been loosening up of late.” PHP, of course, has long been one of the quick, easy, and effective ways to develop web apps, so it's little wonder that corporate developers would have more interest in PHP, especially as the. Web applications are simply how new application development is done nowadays, no matter what side of the firewall you're on. “There's a whole generation of developers who are ‘Web developers,’” he said, “meaning that their primary UI is the Web. The popularity of PHP among enterprise developers reflects the growing importance of web development in those environments, said Redmonk analyst Michael Coté.

The quality is what has brought a lot of people to the table.” With a solid set of tests, people could be confident that it wasn’t going to regress.
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“I think the reason for that is the Zend Framework is a more professionally run open source project, and the emphasis on full unit test of every single component. “We’ve come a long way from the days when people used PHP to create little counters on Web sites,” Mitchell said.

All of those releases came out of the work in the open source community, and what Kent Mitchell, Zend’s director of product management, called “aggressive contributions” from such companies as Microsoft, Adobe, Google, and British Telecom. Version 1.8, which was released early this spring, added enhancements for rapid application development (RAD). Version 1.6 and 1.7 added Dojo, JavaScript, and Flash support to address growing interest in rich Internet applications (RIAs). Versions 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, and now 1.9 came out in rapid succession all were backward compatible. The first Zend Framework was released in 2004, and there have been four minor releases since then. PHP has been making significant inroads into the enterprise, according to industry analysts. The release of Zend Studio Version 7.0 comes as PHP, one of the most popular dynamic scripting languages, continues to grow in popularity. Zend Technologies, the creator and commercial maintainer of PHP, today released upgraded versions of its development environment, Zend Studio, and the open-source Zend Framework. News Zend Updates PHP Framework and Tools
