"PHP -- the popular open-source scripting language designed to create Web pages on the fly -- is having a banner year. By some accounts, it is now being used in more than 9 million Web sites worldwide. "
"and in the United States PHP appears to be pulling ahead of Cold Fusion MX to claim the spot behind ASP, John Meyer, senior analyst at Forrester Research, told NewsFactor. " "Zend's core product is Zend Studio, an advanced, integrated development environment for PHP coding. " "Zend also sells the Zend Safeguard Suite, which enables the protection and mass distribution of commercial PHP applications, and the Zend Performance Suite, which features dynamic content caching, code acceleration and file-compression technologies. Recent releases of the Safeguard Suite have provided greater usability and different methods of license validation, such as licensing per server, licensing based on timeouts, and trialware, Young said. " It's interesting that Zend and Sun seem to have formed some partnership that facilitates Java based business logic and a PHP front-end. I wasn't aware that PHP was making such inroads into web application development. I've looked at the language, and it certainly isn't as easy to pick up as CFMX.It reminded me of my Pascal/VB programming days a long time ago. Is it doing so well simply because it is free? Full article here: http://makeashorterlink.com/?P33122E05 -Gel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
