Zend products will be certified with the Application Packaging Standard (APS), a new application packaging format designed to help easily and quickly implement software as a service (SaaS). Using the APS standard, hosting providers will be able to configure technology stacks based on Zend products to deliver premium PHP solutions for operating business-critical web applications.

"The APS standard is already supported by more than 100 PHP applications for everything from blogging and collaboration to content management, ecommerce and CRM," said Serguei Beloussov, CEO of Parallels. "The Parallels-Zend partnership advances the web hosting industry by helping service providers deliver a greater variety of professional PHP applications and by growing the channel for PHP application vendors." "With thousands of web applications available for individual and business use, PHP is one of the key technologies for hosting companies to support," said Mark de Visser, chief marketing officer, Zend Technologies. "Combining the PHP expertise of Zend with the packaging, delivery and maintenance capabilities of the APS standard will further expand the portfolio of high-quality PHP applications." "It is exciting to see Parallels and Zend extending their partnership," said Jochen Berger, CTO of intergenia AG. "We believe that this collaboration will enable us to broaden our portfolio with applications built on Zend technology." Availability Zend and Parallels will deliver an APS-compliant Zend Framework and an updated version of Zend Optimizer later this quarter. Over time, the companies plan to release new versions of all Zend products that support the APS standard.

About Parallels - Optimized Computing Parallels is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and service providers across all major hardware, operating systems, and virtualization platforms. Founded in 1999, Parallels is a fast-growing company with 900 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information, please visit www.parallels.com.

About Zend - The PHP Company 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 million websites and has quickly become the most popular language for building dynamic web applications. Deployed at more than 25,000 companies worldwide, Zend's family of products provides a comprehensive platform for supporting the entire lifecycle of PHP applications.

Zend is headquartered in Cupertino, California. For more information, please visit www.zend.com.

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Multi-year collaboration between IBM and Zend results in strong adoption of PHP for web application development on System i

"For the past two years we have been working with Zend to help i5/OS customers develop and deploy new web applications that leverage their RPG applications and DB2 data," said Craig Johnson, IBM Power Systems product manager for PHP on i5/OS. “With the Zend offerings on i5/OS, our customers are benefiting from the breath of skills, open community applications, and ecosystem that surrounds PHP.”

Zend products have been enhanced to deliver tighter integration with IBM products. Zend development and deployment products for i5/OS allow customers to consolidate PHP applications running on multiple platforms onto the i5/OS, create new applications that leverage i5/OS data, and deploy any of the thousands of open source applications available.

• General Availability of Zend Core 2.5.2 for i5/OS, a fully tested and enhanced version of open source PHP. Version 2.5.2 includes an updated PHP engine, increased PHP script performance, and a Windows-based installation option.
• General Availability of Zend Platform 3.6 for i5/OS, a PHP production environment that improves application management and performance. Version 3.6 updates include increased PHP application performance and a new integration feature called Zend 5250 Bridge (a PHP-based API for running interactive (5250) applications through a browser).
• Zend JumpStart for i5/OS Service isa fast-paced consulting engagement designed to help an enterprise extend the reach of its i5 environment, resulting in the creation of a fully operational proof of concept ready for deployment on i5/OS.
• Zend Studio for Eclipse - i5/OS editionis a PHP Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that includes all of the components necessary to support the lifecycle of PHP applications created on i5/OS. This edition will be compatible with IBM Rational on Zend Studio Eclipse 3.4, and will be released in Q308.

Upcoming Webcasts:

Modernization -- Zend's PHP Methodology, April 16, 2008at noon ET - Siddhartha Agarwal, Zend vice president of US sales, will articulate the Zend methodology to develop and deploy standards-based PHP applications that leverages and extends the investments that companies have made in i5/OS. 

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 20 million websites and has quickly become the most popular language for building dynamic web applications. Deployed at more than 15,000 companies worldwide, Zend’s family of products provides a comprehensive platform for supporting the entire lifecycle of PHP applications. Zend is headquartered in Cupertino, California. For more information, please visit www.zend.com, or call 1-408-253-8800.

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Veteran Executive Steven Springsteel Joins Zend Board of Directors

Seasoned Executive Brings Extensive Track Record of Business and Financial Results to Leading Open Source Company

CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zend, the PHP Company, today announced that Steven Springsteel has been appointed to its Board of Directors. Springsteel has two decades of experience leading publicly traded technology companies. He will help guide Zend’s exceptional growth with a focus on streamlining operations and maximizing profitability.

“The expansion of Zend’s Board of Directors ensures the company will fully leverage the financial opportunities being created by our multi-year track record of growth. We conducted an extensive search and Steve stood out as an exceptional candidate given his strong operational and financial experience,” said Zend CEO, Harold Goldberg.

Springsteel is currently Chairman, president and CEO of Chordiant Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHRD). He brings over 20 years of high tech management experience to the Zend Board of Directors, including management of two successful IPO’s and several mergers and acquisitions. Before Chordiant, Springsteel was president and CFO at Verity (NASDAQ: VRTY) where he led the company to profitability and guided the sale of the company to Autonomy.

“Zend is quickly reaching a critical stage as open source goes mainstream inside the enterprise,” said Springsteel. “All indications are that they will continue on their current growth trajectory, and I look forward to bringing an operational and fiscal perspective at the board-level to help manage and leverage those opportunities.”

Springsteel joins current Zend board members Danny Rimer of Index Ventures, Moshe Mor of Greylock Partners, Cameron Lester of Azure Capital Partners, Noga Cap of Walden Israel and Zeev Suraski, Zend co-founder and CTO.

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 thirty two million websites and has quickly become the most popular language for building dynamic web applications. Deployed at more than 20,000 companies worldwide, Zend’s family of products provides a comprehensive platform for supporting the entire lifecycle of PHP applications. Zend is headquartered in Cupertino, California. For more information, please visit www.zend.com, or call 1-408-253-8800.

Zend, Zend Technologies, Zend Core, Zend Platform, Zend Framework, Zend.com and Zend Studio and/or the logos and icons associated with each of these names are trademarks of Zend Technologies, Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Popular PHP Framework to be Bundled in Upcoming Release of Ubuntu

Also available is a new Zend Framework subscription support service. It includes consulting time for inquiries related to methodology, and a guaranteed per-incident response time for addressing issues related to Zend Framework project code.  For more information visit: http://www.zend.com/en/services/support/zend-framework-support.

Google and Zend continue to deliver significant enhancements to Zend Framework. Support has been added for the new YouTube APIs, making it easy to upload, watch, search, and comment on YouTube videos on PHP websites.

"With the Google Data APIs, we want to make it easy for developers to build innovative web apps that integrate with Google products.  Zend and the open-sourced Zend Framework have made these APIs easily accessible to a wide range of PHP programmers," said Tom Stocky, senior product manager for developer products at Google. "Today's release of Zend Framework 1.5 brings new capabilities such as YouTube's new upload and write APIs to millions of PHP programmers worldwide."

Zend Framework is also being made available in Ubuntu, a highly regarded Linux distribution with millions of users around the world. Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, will include Zend Framework in its Universe repository and is slated for release in April of this year.

Malcolm Yates, ISV alliances manager for Ubuntu's corporate sponsor, Canonical Ltd. expressed: "Having an open source project of the scale of Zend Framework participating as a member of the Ubuntu community is very significant – Zend and Canonical both see strong traction for Ubuntu & PHP as a preferred way to develop and deploy modern web applications."

“We’re really pleased that Zend Framework has reached a critical mass of acceptance from the community which can be seen in the caliber of our contributors: Google, IBM, StrikeIron, and now with version 1.5, Microsoft, Fox Interactive Media, and Nirvanix,” said Andi Gutmans, CTO and co-founder at Zend Technologies. “With this latest release, Zend continues to deliver on the promise of making PHP an accessible language for building modern web applications and web services of any scope, from startup Web 2.0 sites to major business critical enterprise web applications.”

IGN Entertainment, a division of Fox Interactive Media, is using Zend Framework to create a wide variety of content across its network of gaming, entertainment, and lifestyle Web properties. 

“Zend Framework is incredibly effective for IGN because it does not impose its structure, and allows us to make our own architectural decisions,” said Tony Ford, engineering manager of community sites for IGN Entertainment. “By choosing Zend Framework, we have been able to easily pick, integrate and extend components — including the excellent MVC support — into other code that is helping to drive our new IGN Community Sites platform.”

Additional features in Zend Framework 1.5 include support for several new services and enhancements to already popular features that make building modern web sites easier and faster than ever:

• Forms – Zend Framework now supports forms, including Ajax usage patterns that make building and using web-based forms much easier. 
• Layout and view – Layout support and view enhancements make it easier than ever to implement a consistent look and feel throughout PHP applications and savedevelopers time by keeping web application views componentized.
• LDAP authentication – Zend Framework now comes with enterprise-ready authentication through support for LDAP technology.
• Lucene search engine – Now it is possible toimplementadvanced queries using wildcards, date ranges, and fuzzy searches from within a Zend Framework application.
• Extended Ajax support – Zend Framework’sserver-side support for Ajax with action helpers to automate Ajax detection and responses now make programming using JavaScript & PHP much easier.
• UTF-8 character sets in Adobe PDF creation – Zend Framework’s PDF support has been enhanced to enable non-Latin character sets such as Kanji, Cyrillic, and many others.
• Google GData web services – Significant enhancements to Google Data services now make it easier than ever to build web applications that leverage the Google application network. New in Zend Framework 1.5 is support for upload and write capabilities to Google YouTube.

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 20 million websites and has quickly become the most popular language for building dynamic web applications. Deployed at more than 15,000 companies worldwide, Zend’s family of products provides a comprehensive platform for supporting the entire lifecycle of PHP applications. Zend is headquartered in Cupertino, California. For more information, please visit www.zend.com, or call 1-408-253-8800.

Zend, Zend Technologies, Zend Core, Zend Platform, Zend Framework, Zend.com and Zend Studio and/or the logos and icons associated with each of these names are trademarks of Zend Technologies, Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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CUPERTINO, Calif.--Zend Technologies, the PHP Company, today announced that high-performance web applications can be deployed with confidence on Microsoft’s Windows Server 2008, the next generation platform for running business-critical applications. Microsoft and Zend have worked together on Zend Core, Zend’s tested, certified and supported version of PHP. Zend Core and PHP are now certified for Windows Server 2008.

“Microsoft and Zend continue to collaborate to ensure performance and reliability with PHP and Windows,” said Sam Ramji, director of open source technology strategy at Microsoft. “Together we are creating high levels of compatibility and supporting the workload and the development styles that our customers want to use on Windows Server.”

This announcement is the latest in a series of collaborations between Zend and Microsoft aimed at delivering high performance and reliability for PHP applications running on the Windows Server platform. Several of these enhancements have been contributed back to the PHP community. Late last year, Microsoft announced delivery of its FastCGI component for IIS, an interface between PHP and the IIS Web server that delivered substantial reliability and performance benefits for PHP applications running on Windows. Zend is also working closely with Microsoft by integrating support for Information Cards in Zend Framework, the leading PHP open source framework for building modern web applications and web services. This enables internet users to manage, control and exchange digital identities more safely and consistently using Windows CardSpace®. In addition, Microsoft has undertaken more than a dozen projects to ensure that the most popular PHP applications run on Windows, including Mambo, WordPress and Coppermine, among others.

"Today’s announcement is another milestone in our multi-year agreement to ensure that PHP is a first-class citizen on the Windows Server platform,” said Zend CTO and Co-Founder Andi Gutmans. “We’re pleased that Windows Server 2008 is ‘PHP ready’ at launch. Going forward, Zend’s entire product portfolio will support Server 2008, including Zend Platform our PHP application server which enables managing and scaling large scale PHP applications."

Windows Server 2008 software certification consists of approximately 100 test cases that independently confirm an application's compliance with best practices for compatibility, security, reliability, and availability on the new platform, while ensuring the software performs in a 64-bit environment. The certification identifies top-performing technologies that are ready to deploy in mission-critical environments. As a participant in the Microsoft Early Access Program (EAP) for Windows Server 2008 Software Certification, Zend Core is one of more than 300 applications that are eligible for certification on a pre-release version of the new platform.

Details about Windows Server 2008 software certification, its test framework, and the Early Access Program are available at www.innovateonwindowsserver.com.

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 million websites and has quickly become the most popular language for building dynamic web applications. Deployed at more than 15,000 companies worldwide, Zend’s family of products provides a comprehensive platform for supporting the entire lifecycle of PHP applications. Zend is headquartered in Cupertino, California. For more information, please visit www.zend.com, or call 1-408-253-8800.

Zend, Zend Technologies, Zend Core, Zend Platform, Zend Framework, Zend.com and Zend Studio and/or the logos and icons associated with each of these names are trademarks of Zend Technologies, Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Zend Technologies Updates Zend Platform with Comprehensive New Capabilities to Improve Manageability, Performance and Reliability of PHP Web Applications

Platform 3.6 Introduces Page Caching for Zend Framework and Similar MVC Frameworks

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA – January 22, 2008 - Zend Technologies, the PHP Company, today announced the general availability of version 3.6 of Zend Platform™, the industry leading PHP web application server. Zend Platform 3.6 significantly expands the breadth and depth of its manageability, performance and clustering support for PHP, enabling organizations to better guarantee that their business critical web applications will meet end user’s quality, availability and response time expectations.

“The overall responsiveness and reliability of PHP web applications is determined by a wide range of factors. PHP developers and web administrators often struggle with a patchwork of technologies to identify and remove bottlenecks and causes of failure," said Mark de Visser, Chief Marketing Officer at Zend Technologies. “Zend Platform 3.6 offers a comprehensive solution to this problem. At every stage of the application lifecycle it helps developers and administrators understand and improve the quality, performance and reliability of their PHP applications.”

Zend Platform 3.6 delivers new and enhanced functionality in 3 major areas:

·         PHP Intelligence.  Zend Platform monitors PHP applications in real time and reports script errors, database problems, performance issues and more. It reduces downtime by recording full context for reported problems for easy “root cause” diagnostics and short time to resolution. The enhancements in version 3.6 include the ability to monitor HTTP, Apache and Java events, expanded performance alerts, and better diagnostics by enabling debugging of production problems on development servers.

·         Performance Management. Zend Platform improves the performance of PHP applications by caching pre-optimized PHP byte code and content in a number of ways. In version 3.6, the options for caching content have been expanded substantially, with support for file or URL based page caching, client-side caching and in-memory or disk based data caching. In addition to the powerful caching functionality, Zend Platform 3.6 also offers automatic output compression to save bandwidth, enhanced job-queues for deferred and offline processing and an improved download server for optimized delivery of large content and media files.

·         Cluster Management. Zend Platform provides support to scale PHP applications across clusters of servers, thereby improving application reliability and overall performance. Improved in Platform 3.6 are the high-availability options and the cluster configuration and support tools.

In Ticketing offers event organizers online ticketing and box office services, selling more than 1 million tickets per year. “Our business is characterized by very strong peaks of activity, so our web applications need to be able to perform well under very high transaction volumes,” said Marc Urbaitel, Co-founder and CTO at InTicketing. “During our recent start of sales of tickets for a major event we processed more than 20,000 job processes in the first few hours of ticket sales. We deployed an early version of Zend Platform 3.6 on load balanced web servers with a dedicated Job Queue server, which enabled us to process these transactions while maintaining very good response times on our website.”

“Zend Framework applications are generally built using a model-view-controller design pattern (MVC) that enables a separation of business logic and data from the visual user interface elements. The new URL-based page caching of Platform 3.6 will dramatically improve the performance of these MVC applications,” says Andi Gutmans, co-founder and co-CTO at Zend Technologies. “With over 3 million downloads to date, and many corporate deployments of Zend Framework, we are excited to be able to offer our customers this important new functionality.”

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 million websites 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 is headquartered in Cupertino, California. For more information, please visit www.zend.com, or call 1-408-253-8800.

Zend, Zend Technologies, Zend Framework, Zend.com and Zend Studio and/or the logos and icons associated with each of these names are trademarks of Zend Technologies, Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Zend Releases Zend Studio for Eclipse, Delivering the Next Generation of PHP Development Tools

PHP Developers will Benefit from Zend’s IDE and PHP Expertise and the
Depth of Functionality and Extensions in Eclipse

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA – January 22, 2008 - Zend, the PHP Company, today announced the immediate availability of Zend Studio for Eclipse, an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for PHP, built on top of the Eclipse PDT project. Zend Studio for Eclipse is designed for professional PHP developers who need to support the entire PHP application lifecycle, and want to take advantage of the sophistication and extensibility of the Eclipse framework and ecosystem.

Zend Studio for Eclipse improves the quality of PHP applications, speeds development cycles, and simplifies complex projects. It includes a comprehensive set of editing, debugging, analysis, optimization and database tools, as well as support for agile development processes such as unit testing, refactoring, code coverage and profiling. Eclipse provides first class multi-language support, has an extensible architecture and is supported by a vibrant open source community. Further features include Zend Framework integration, HTML WYSIWYG editor, Subversion support and more.

 “More than 15,000 developers participated in the beta program for Zend Studio for Eclipse, which makes it by far the largest beta-test effort we have ever conducted for a commercial product,” said Andi Gutmans, co-CTO and co-founder of Zend Technologies and Eclipse board member. “The feedback has been very positive, especially from commercial users who in many cases had already standardized on Eclipse as their development environment. It validates our strategy to move our PHP IDE to the open source Eclipse platform.”

Dallas-based Stream Energy, electricity provider to roughly 300,000 customers in Texas, is one client who truly appreciates the versatility the Zend product offers. “Zend Studio for Eclipse allows all our developers to work in similar environments, whether they're working with PHP, Flex, Java, or almost anything else,” said Jason Forgey, Stream Energy’s Director of Information Technology. “The included PHPUnit support and integration with features from Zend Framework are invaluable. The ability to integrate in other Eclipse plugins like Mylyn, SoapUI, and Subversive allow us to access all our day-to-day tools from the same IDE.”

“With more than 250,000 downloads since its launch in September 2007, the Eclipse PDT project has had a very successful start. The introduction of Zend’s commercial IDE on top of PDT further strengthens the project,” said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. “The Eclipse Foundation is excited to see this collaboration by the Eclipse and PHP communities rapidly gain momentum.”

"As the traction from the PDT project indicates, interest from the Eclipse community in PHP is strong," said Stephen O'Grady, principal analyst at RedMonk. "With the release of Studio, Zend has the opportunity to bring the sizable Eclipse and PHP communities together by combining the best of both worlds."

Pricing and Availability
The price for Zend Studio for Eclipse is $399.00 per developer. For a limited time, a special introductory offer of $299.00 will be in effect. Users of Zend Studio Professional, Zend’s current market leading PHP IDE, will receive Zend Studio for Eclipse at no cost if they have a current support contract. For full details, see http://www.zend.com/en/store.

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 million websites 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 is headquartered in Cupertino, California. For more information, please visit www.zend.com or call 1-408-253-8800.

Zend, Zend Technologies, Zend Framework, Zend.com and Zend Studio and/or the logos and icons associated with each of these names are trademarks of Zend Technologies, Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Industry’s Leading PHP Distribution Makes it Easy to Deploy and Maintain Reliable PHP Applications, Running Consistently Across Diverse Operating Systems

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA – October 9, 2007 - Zend Technologies, the PHP Company, today announced a new version of Zend Core™, the industry’s leading PHP distribution. Zend Core 2.5 complements PHP with enhancements that make it possible to deploy business-critical PHP applications efficiently and with confidence. A choice of support and maintenance options are available to ensure that organizations are able to keep their production servers secure and up-to-date as the PHP community releases patches and updates. The main elements of Zend Core 2.5 are:

• Certified PHP 5.2.4, extensions, libraries, database drivers, web services support, and all other components required to run professional applications
• Simplified installation of the full PHP application stack, including web servers, databases, extensions and Zend Framework, plus support for unattended deployment and integration with leading system management tools
• Service agreements for PHP 5.2.4 for up to two years from the introduction of the next PHP version, and support options ranging from web-only to 24x7

“We have deep roots in the open source PHP project and package that experience in Zend Core 2.5 to make it easy for our customers to deploy their key PHP applications,” said Zeev Zuraski, co-founder and co-CTO at Zend. “Through our relationships with leading providers like IBM, Oracle and Microsoft, we are able to add tested components that are needed for truly business critical web applications.”

Pricing and Availability
Zend Core is available today and can be freely downloaded at www.zend.com. Prices for service options start at $298 per server per year. Contact your Zend sales representative to learn about the maintenance and support program that best fits your needs.

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 million websites 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 is headquartered in Cupertino, California. For more information, please visit www.zend.com, or call 1-408-253-8800.

Zend, Zend Technologies, Zend.com and Zend Studio and/or the logos and icons associated with each of these names are trademarks of Zend Technologies, Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

New Eclipse-Based PHP IDE, New Version of Zend Core, and Announcements by IBM, Microsoft and Oracle Highlight Start of World’s Largest PHP Conference

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA – October 9, 2007 - Today at ZendCon, the third annual Zend/PHP Conference, Zend took significant steps to further advance PHP’s capabilities as the premier platform for business-critical web applications. In a series of announcements, the company shared details about deeper integration with products from IBM, Microsoft and Oracle, enhancements to the Zend version of PHP, and an all-new offering for developers who want to create PHP applications using Eclipse.

ZendCon is the largest gathering of its kind for the PHP community and for companies using PHP to build and deploy business-critical web applications. It is an important meeting place for an ecosystem that includes the world’s largest software companies, innovative web start-ups and leading-edge developers from more than 30 countries. Business application modernization, state-of-the-art graphical web applications, web service development, Web 2.0, mash-ups and user identity management are some of the over 50 sessions being led by an elite corps of business and software experts.

Today’s announcements underscore Zend’s commitment to creating the world’s best products that support commercial use of PHP, as well as its ongoing contribution to the open source PHP project and community of over 4.5 million PHP developers. The announcements include:

• Zend Studio for Eclipse – The all-new commercial PHP IDE for Eclipse with immediate availability of a downloadable beta version
• Zend Core 2.5 – Immediate availability of the new version of Zend’s production grade PHP
• IBM releases the IBM Mashup Starter Kit, based on Zend Core, Zend Framework and DB2
• Single source support from Zend for DB2 and Zend Core
• Delivery by Microsoft of a new FastCGI module to improve PHP performance on Windows
• Microsoft announces a new SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP
• Zend announces support for the Server Core option in Microsoft Windows Server 2008
• Collaboration between Zend and Microsoft to deliver support for the identity management (Information Card) in Zend Framework
• Oracle Announces PHP support for Connection Pooling in Oracle® Database 11g

“PHP’s momentum and its rapid pace of innovation are driving high growth opportunities for everyone in the community, from individual developers to large corporate IT departments modernizing their business applications,” said Harold Goldberg, Zend CEO. “I’m proud to see the diversity of talent gathered at ZendCon, and to be able to showcase the results of all the hard work done by the community, by our partner companies and by Zend.”

Launch of Zend Studio for Eclipse
Zend announced Zend Studio for Eclipse, an all-new PHP Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that allows developers to take advantage of the sophisticated, feature-rich Eclipse framework. Zend Studio for Eclipse is a commercial product that builds on the recently announced open source Eclipse PDT project, and is aimed at speeding PHP development with a comprehensive set of editing, debugging, analysis, optimization and database tools. At the conference, Zend made a pre-release version available under the code name Neon. General availability is expected in early 2008.

Zend Core 2.5 released
Zend announced the immediate availability of Zend Core 2.5, strengthening PHP 5 for deployment of business critical web applications. Among the improvements in version 2.5 are simplified installation and maintenance of the full PHP application stack, including web server, databases, extensions and Zend Framework. Version 2.5 releases of Zend Core for IBM, Zend Core for i5/OS and Zend Core for Oracle will be available in the fourth quarter of 2007.

IBM releases the IBM Mashup Starter Kit
In a separate announcement made earlier today in Armonk NY, IBM introduced the IBM Mashup Starter Kit. The toolkit, available from the IBM Alphaworks website, enables non-technical business users to create sophisticated business applications by combining web services with drag-and-drop ease. The toolkit has been created with PHP 5, using Zend Core for IBM, Zend Framework and DB2 data servers.

Zend confirms availability of single source support for PHP and DB2
First announced in August, Zend is now offering a single source of support for PHP applications running on DB2 databases. This solution, which includes Zend Core for IBM and DB2 Express-C, can be extended with DB2 Connect technology to provide access to i5/OS and z/OS data servers.

Microsoft releases FastCGI for PHP
Last year at ZendCon, Microsoft and Zend announced a long-term collaboration agreement aimed at increasing the reliability and performance of PHP applications on Windows. Significant progress has been made on all of the announced projects, and many of the improvements have been accepted by the PHP open source project. Today, Microsoft announced that it has delivered on another commitment with the release of the GoLive beta of an Internet Information Services (IIS) add-on component, FastCGI. FastCGI serves as an interface between PHP and an IIS Web server delivering substantial reliability and performance benefits for PHP applications running on Windows. It is now available for free from Microsoft on http://www.iis.net/php.

Microsoft announces new SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP
Microsoft today also announced the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP that gives developers an optimized way to link their PHP applications to SQL Server 2005. Microsoft and Zend are working together, and with the PHP community, to fully extend database support in PHP to SQL Server 2005 and make it part of Zend’s core PHP offering.

PHP support for Server Core option in Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Microsoft Server Core is an installation option for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 that provides a minimal environment for running specific server roles, while reducing maintenance and management requirements. Zend announced today that the company will support Microsoft Server Core in upcoming releases of Zend Core, giving PHP developers a way to optimize server reliability and performance when their PHP applications are running on Windows.

Identity management with Microsoft in Zend Framework
Support for identity management is a key objective for the upcoming releases of Zend Framework. At the conference, Zend and Microsoft announced that they are collaborating to add support for Information Cards into Zend Framework. This collaboration will enable PHP developers to create applications that support identification and authentication, including single sign-on for a broad range of website users, including those using Windows CardSpace. This commitment to interoperability will reduce development costs and make the web safer and more secure for people.

Oracle announces enhanced OCI8 driver and connection pooling for PHP
Building on more than three years of collaboration with Zend, Oracle today announced an open source contribution of an enhanced Oracle Call Interface (OCI8) database driver for PHP, supporting important Oracle Database 11g features such as connection pooling and fast application notification. This new OCI8 driver for PHP enables a single commodity server to support tens of thousands of database connections and, at the same time, provide higher availability. Oracle has posted a preview of the new OCI8 driver for PHP to the PECL repository. Zend will support the new capability in an upcoming release of Zend Core.

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 million websites 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 is headquartered in Cupertino, California. For more information, please visit www.zend.com, or call 1-408-253-8800.

Zend, Zend Technologies, Zend.com and Zend Studio and/or the logos and icons associated with each of these names are trademarks of Zend Technologies, Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

PHP Developers to Benefit from Strength of Zend Studio Product Line and Depth of Functionality and Extensions in Eclipse

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA – October 9, 2007 - Zend, the PHP Company, today announced Zend Studio for Eclipse, an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for PHP, built on top of the recently announced Eclipse PDT project. Zend Studio for Eclipse is designed for professional PHP developers who need to support the entire PHP application lifecycle, and want to take advantage of the sophistication and extensibility of the Eclipse framework and ecosystem.

“The benefits of the Eclipse platform closely match the needs of the modern web application developer,” said Andi Gutmans, co-CTO and co-founder of Zend Technologies. “Eclipse provides first class multi-language support, has an extensible architecture and is supported by a vibrant open source community. In Zend Studio for Eclipse we enhance Eclipse PDT by delivering key capabilities for commercial PHP development, such as refactoring, unit testing, profiling and integration with Zend Framework.”

“An important goal of the Eclipse Foundation is to support commercial products built on the Eclipse infrastructure, and this is the newest offering that helps bring the millions of PHP programmers into the Eclipse community,” said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. “We are happy see Zend commercialize Eclipse PDT with their Zend Studio for Eclipse product.”

"There is little debate that the Eclipse community is increasingly the center of gravity with respect to professional development tooling," said Stephen O'Grady, principal analyst at RedMonk. "By aligning itself with the Eclipse platform, Zend is at once bringing PHP to entirely new audiences and giving existing PHP developers access to an immense volume of plug-ins and tools."

Zend Studio for Eclipse improves the quality of PHP applications, speeds development cycles, and simplifies complex projects. It includes a comprehensive set of editing, debugging, analysis, optimization and database tools, as well as support for agile development processes such as unit testing, refactoring, code coverage and profiling. Further features include multi-language support, Zend Framework integration, HTML WYSIWYG editor, and more.

Pricing and Availability
Effective immediately, Zend is making a prerelease version of Zend Studio for Eclipse available for free download under the code name “Neon.” General availability is scheduled for early 2008. Users of Zend Studio Professional, Zend’s current market leading PHP IDE, will receive Zend Studio for Eclipse at no cost if they have an ongoing support contract. Zend will continue to maintain Zend Studio Professional, including the release of updates to support newer PHP versions.

As a special introductory promotion until the end of 2007, Zend Studio Professional will be offered at a 15 percent price discount, including the right to obtain Zend Studio for Eclipse when it will be released – see http://www.zend.com/store for details.

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 million websites 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 is headquartered in Cupertino, California. For more information, please visit www.zend.com, or call 1-408-253-8800.

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