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Andi Gutmans talks PHP as new Zend CEO


By Jeff Feinman
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March 3, 2009 —  (Page 1 of 4)
Andi Gutmans’ appointment to the head position of Zend Technologies in early February did not come as a surprise to many. For starters, Gutmans was a company cofounder and helped build the enterprise PHP toolmaker, focusing on expanding the PHP community and maturing the market. The young yet experienced programmer has also gotten his feet wet as the main company spokesman and driving force behind company strategy. He spoke with SD Times about how he will work to keep PHP a legitimate scripting language and how he will try to drive Zend forward in his new post.

SD Times: What was your reaction to becoming CEO?
Andi Gutmans: There wasn’t really an immediate reaction from me because I’ve been driving the strategy of the company for the past few years, pretty much since 2005. Part of that strategy was to really make sure that we leverage the whole PHP community and mature the market around PHP. We kind of got to this point now where we’re rolling out the next phase of this strategy, which is Zend Server, which we just launched into public beta. So the board really felt that I was the right person to take that strategy that I’ve been leading and make sure we execute it all the way. I would say it was less of a shock and more of just a natural progression.

Andi Gutmans
With Zend Server, is the company moving in a new direction?
When I started the company with Zeev Suraski, we were trying to make sure that we delivered production solutions for business-critical applications: performance, monitoring, anything you need to run a reliable application. The DNA of the company is definitely production and performance of PHP. We deal with some of the largest websites out there, so the Zend Server rollout is extremely important for the company because it takes that next step into production. Zend Server is, I would say, where the DNA of the company meets the footprint that we got from our Zend Framework application framework, and we really want to leverage that to grow our server footprint.


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