Second Annual Zend Conference Focuses on Strength and Proliferation of PHP.

Zend Technologies Announces Major Product Updates and New Industry Collaborations

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- At the Zend/PHP Conference, Zend Technologies shared details of new and updated products for creating the next generation of web applications, and also unveiled a strategic relationship with Microsoft that will extend the reach of PHP, the world's most widely used web programming language. The company also demonstrated its commitment to the development of the open source projects Zend Framework and PHP Eclipse Project by showcasing critical milestones achieved in the projects, and rolled out new collaboration agreements with Google, IBM and MySQL to enable greater integration of PHP applications across a wide array of platforms.

"2006 was a landmark year for the proliferation of PHP in large companies, leading Web innovators and government agencies around the world," said Zend co-CTO and co-founder Zeev Suraski. "Our recent partnerships and product announcements will further help in making PHP the de-facto standard for web development, and will let companies fully leverage web innovation for business value."

"Today, over four million web developers are using PHP for millions of websites globally. We started this conference to provide a forum for learning and information exchange, from the individual developer to the top executives at some of the largest companies in the world," said Zend co-CTO and co-founder Andi Gutmans. "Zend is galvanizing the PHP ecosystem and driving development of products to further enrich this community."

Collaborations with Microsoft and MySQL

Microsoft and Zend announced a technical collaboration to enhance the experience of running the PHP scripting language on Windows Server[R] 2003 and the next version of Windows Server, code-named "Longhorn." The cooperative effort seeks to provide customers with richer functionality and better integration, resulting in improved performance and increased reliability.

Zend also announced an agreement with MySQL AB that will enable it to better integrate the popular open source database with Zend products, including the option of full integration.

"Zend aims to make it very easy to deploy reliable and high performance PHP 5 across all leading computing platforms, and improving integration with MySQL and Windows was high on our list of priorities," said Mark de Visser, Zend's chief marketing officer. "Starting in the first quarter of 2007, we intend to use the improved PHP technologies in our Zend Core product line, Zend's certified PHP distribution."

New Products and Enhancements

New milestone releases of Zend Framework and the PHP Eclipse project were announced, along with Zend Studio 5.5 and an update to Zend Core for IBM that makes it compatible with the latest version of DB2 and adds support for the Informix Dynamic Server (IDS). A new product called ZendBox[TM], a fully hosted and managed PHP 5 Technology stack was also announced.

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About Zend

Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP company, is the leading provider of products and services for developing, deploying and managing business-critical PHP applications. PHP is used by more than twenty-two million Web sites and has quickly become the most popular language for building dynamic web applications. Deployed at more than 15,000 companies worldwide, the Zend family of products is a comprehensive platform for supporting the entire lifecycle of PHP applications. Zend Technologies, Inc. is headquartered in Cupertino, California. For more information, please visit www.zend.com, or call 1-408-253-8800.