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Zend Opens Windows on PHP


Agreements expected to make PHP faster on Windows, Oracle

By Alex Handy
October 9, 2007 — 
Zend Technologies today announced multiple moves in concert with Microsoft that are expected to result in faster performance for PHP applications running on Windows.

Andi Gutmans, Zend co-founder and CTO, said that numerous news announcements made at his company's ZendCon PHP conference in San Francisco have a single theme: building an ecosystem around both PHP and Zend. “About 55 percent of our customers want to build hybrid applications,” added Gutmans, explaining that the difficulty of creating applications consisting of multiple languages is mitigated somewhat by Eclipse, thereby driving his company's move toward the open source framework.

That led to the first announcement today of the public availability of a preview version of Zend Studio for Eclipse. Built on the Eclipse PHP Development Tools project, this IDE includes full life-cycle support and unit testing integrations.

Zend also announced an update to its distribution of PHP, Zend Core 2.5. Gutmans said that the primary change in Zend Core is an updated deployment model. Users in large-scale PHP shops can now install the Zend Core remotely across grids and server farms.

But the biggest announcements at ZendCon related to the fulfillment of agreements between Zend and Microsoft made earlier this year. Microsoft has begun to contribute to the Zend Framework open source project, which seeks to create a standardized PHP application framework for enterprise users. Microsoft's work on the project will focus on integrating the framework with identity management capabilities.

Gutmans noted that as part of the agreement, Microsoft has made changes to its IIS Web server to make PHP run faster. For Windows Server 2003 and the upcoming Windows Server 2008, PHP runtime speeds should be vastly improved, he added, thanks to Microsoft's modifications. Additionally, Windows Server Core, an upcoming edition of Windows Server that is stripped down for smaller installations, will include PHP support.

Zend also announced agreements with Oracle and IBM at ZendCon 2007 that center on database integration and support. For developers building applications in PHP that are backed up by IBM DB2 databases, Zend will now offer single-source support for the language and the database.

On the Oracle side of the fence, PHP applications connecting to Oracle databases will now be able to use connection pooling to minimize database access demands. Gutmans explained that Oracle changed the driver in PHP that controls access to its databases to support connection pooling, and has subsequently contributed these changes to the open source PHP project.


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