PHP challenges Java EE and. NET

Java EE after the "Programming Language of 2004" award, by the Zend company-led PHP, began to the Java EE and. NET Challenge, rob the Web enterprise application development market.

According to Forrester's research, it is estimated that 2006 of the market will have 22% of the enterprise applications using Java EE Development, 13% use. net,56% for both, and 9% for other languages and platforms. Zend's goal is this 9% (or more, because Zend thinks that Java EE is too complex, and using PHP to efficiently develop high-speed applications is not difficult. Zend Company has launched Zend Platform 1.1, which is designed to improve PHP's enterprise-level application competitiveness. This is a complete solution and even provides a Php/java integration bridge for the combination of PHP and Java, which can be easily combined with both. It will be concentrated in Zend Studio. Zend platform supports Linux, Sparc Solaris, FreeBSD 4.x/5.x and Mac OS x.
, its single CPU server version price is 999 U.S. dollars, the dual-CPU server version price of 1495 U.S. dollars.

In addition to the launch of Zend platform, Zend is ramping up the launch of Zend Studio4.0, which can launch a beta version around Valentine's Day (05.02.14). Zendstudio provides MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 and Cloudscape database integration and support.

By the way, Zend, a five-year-old company in Israel, has more than 8,000 clients (such as Ufthansa, Lockheed Martin, Disney Online, Dresdner Bank, Orange and ADP). Its headquarters moved to California in 2003 and began opening offices in Germany and Japan.