All, I'm pleased to announce two initiatives at Great Bridge aimed at improving the integration of PostgreSQL and PHP, and some exciting stuff that we're doing as a company to get behind PHP more fully. First, Great Bridge is partnering with Zend Technologies to include a fully-integrated installation of PHP in an upcoming Web developer's edition of Great Bridge PostgreSQL. In addition to professionally-supported PHP (and other open source Web technologies), we'll also give our customers the chance to purchase Zend's value-added PHP tools (IDE, cache, encoder, and more...) Zend is a major contributor to the open source PHP effort, and we're very happy to be working with them. Secondly, we're pleased to announce that three PHP core developers have joined the Great Bridge advisory committee- Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of PHP; Thies Arntzen, an expert in PHP-database connectivity; and Sascha Schumann, PHP author and provider of high-performance webchat solutions. Rasmus, Thies, and Sascha will work with us to help craft our Web developer products and services, including (of course) a fully optimized free download package. We'll be putting some development energy into the PHP-Postgres interface, and look for other ways the two open source projects can help each other. We're also very interested in hacker feedback as to what you'd like to see in a software and service package that revolves around the Web development "stack." What kind of tools, building blocks, and applications would you like to see commercially supported? Don't be shy - please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with any suggestions. I'll also be at ApacheCon in a few weeks if you'd like to get together in person. Thanks, Ned -- ---------------------------------------------------- Ned Lilly e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vice President w: www.greatbridge.com Evangelism / Hacker Relations v: 757.233.5523 Great Bridge, LLC f: 757.233.5555 -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
