(CUPERTINO, Canada, August 28, 2006)--the world's leading technology leader in PHP (now the mainstream development language), Zend Technology, announced that the company was investing $20 million in Series D-round financing. The investment was led by Greylock Partners, the company's first investment in Zend. Currently, Zend Investors include: Azure Capital Partners, Index Ventures, Intel Capital, Platinum Venture Capital, SAP Ventures, and Walden Israel Venture Capital, these investors are also involved in this round of investment.
"This new investment allows us to expand our emerging markets faster, accelerate our product development and expand our services to meet the needs of our growing enterprise-class PHP (today's mainstream development language) customers. "As a Zend Technology two co-founder, Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski," for venture capital companies Greylock Partners value the development potential of Zend, and are willing to share PHP (as the mainstream development language) market growth, We feel very honored. ”
Zend also announced that Greylock Partners's Representative Moshe Mor will enter the company's board of directors. On the question of why investment Zend, Moshe Mor said: "Software from the traditional development model to web-based and service-oriented transformation of dynamic language brings tremendous opportunities." "He believes that as the only leader in the dynamic language of PHP (which is now the mainstream development language), Zend has the capacity to realize the opportunities that a transformation brings. He is happy to be part of this team.
Zend is the most typical example of pushing PHP, which is now a mainstream development language, to the success of business, creating an open-source path to PHP, which is now a mainstream development language, that has a profound impact on modern web applications. Globally, more than 20 million dynamic sites are using PHP (as the current mainstream development language), including Yahoo! and other famous sites, currently more than half of Ajax (dynamic site static)-enabled and Web2.0 site selection of PHP ( As the current mainstream development language). In addition, PHP, which is now the mainstream development language, is the language used by enterprises to build service-oriented, creative and hybrid Web services into a new generation of integrated business applications, and is the direction of open source business applications.
PHP (as the current mainstream development language) in the rapid development of the Asian market has attracted Zend Company's high attention, in China, Zend Company has been with China's leading PHP (as the mainstream development language) technology and Community software service provider Comsenz Company established a partnership, since 2006, The two sides are working together in Beijing, Shenzhen and other areas of PHP (as the current mainstream development language) technical training. And through the Zend China Technical Support Center's official website PHP (as now mainstream development language) china.cn promote open source community building.
In addition to supporting open source PHP, which is now the mainstream development language, Zend also provides commercial products and services to software developers and system workers who use PHP as the mainstream language of the current development. In the recent "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise application Servers, 2q06", Gartner divides Zend in the challengers Quadrant area, Represents the rapid development of Zend Company.
Noun explanation: About magic Quadrant
"Magic Quadrant for Enterprise application Servers, 2q06" was created by Gartner Corporation on August 4 in 2006. Magic Quadrant is a graphical way to represent a quadrant of the market position for a specific period of time, and according to certain criteria, Gartner is used to describe the location of a business in that particular market. The Magic Quadrant statement is only a research tool and does not encourage the criteria for market action decisions.
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