Discover Enterprise PHP at This Year's php/tek Conference.

TORONTO -- php|architect, the premier magazine for PHP professionals, is pleased to announce that IBM's Rod Smith, Vice President of Internet Emerging Technologies, Software Group, and Andi Gutmans, co-founder and VP of Technology at Zend Technologies, will be among the keynote speakers at this year's php|tek conference.

Scheduled to take place from April 26th to 28th, at the Orlando Airport Marriott Hotel in Orlando, Florida, php|tek will focus on PHP's rapidly expanding support for the enterprise market, with technical presentations from well-known PHP experts, such as Rasmus Lerdorf, creator of the PHP language, Derick Rethans, Ilia Alshanetsky, John Coggeshall, Chris Shiflett, and many more.

The media are also invited to attend a live interactive webcast interview with Rod Smith on April 7, 2006 at 12PM EST, part of php|architect's Pro::PHP Podcast series. The interview will also be archived as a downloadable podcast to be heard after the live version has aired. To register for the webcast, please go to the Pro::PHP website at http://podcast.phparch.com/.

Zend is the leading company offering commercial PHP products to the enterprise market. Their market-leading Zend Core provides an out-of-the box PHP development and production environment that is easy to install and is fully supported. Zend co-founders Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans are the creators of the Zend Engine, which has been at the base of all versions of PHP since 3.0. "We are excited to be one of the presenting sponsors of php|tek," said Mark de Visser, Zend's Chief Marketing Officer, "and look forward to showcasing some of our new community-based initiatives, such as the Zend Collaboration Project and the Zend Framework."

PHP is the most widely-used development platform on the Web, today. Built entirely around an open-source model that makes the source code available to developers worldwide without any restriction, PHP is one of the core technologies of the popular LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP). According to Netcraft (http://www.php.net/usage.php), PHP usage has grown from 100,000 domains/websites in January 2000 to over 21 million as of March 2006. PHP is ranked as the 4th most popular programming language according to the TIOBE Programming Community Index (http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm). The latest version of PHP, 5.1.2, was released on January 13, 2006.

The php|tek conference is now sold out, but a limited number of media passes are available for qualified members of the technology press that wish to attend the conference. Post-event webcasts of the keynote presentations will be available after the event at http://www.phparch.com/tek.

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php|architect is the leading publisher of materials for PHP professionals. The company produces a magazine that is distributed worldwide in print and digital formats, and is published twelve times a year. Through its web site, they offer on-line courses, books, conferences and webcasts from some of the leading companies in the PHP community. More information can be obtained at http://www.phparch.com/.

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