Jaslabs: High performance Software

By Justin Silverton

From the article:

“Bill Hilf, a Microsoft technical strategist, said the Zend deal, a multiyear, multiphase partnership, will ensure PHP programs run on past and future versions of Microsoft Web server software. The pact covers both the established Windows Server 2003 and the upcoming version, code-named Longhorn.”

“PHP has always worked on Windows. The problem is that it never performed very well,” Andi Gutmans, Zend’s co-founder and chief technology officer, said in an interview.

“Twelve-year-old PHP runs on more than 22 million Web sites and is used inside 15,000 companies.

Technical improvements by Zend and Microsoft to make it easier to run PHP on Windows computers will be available to PHP’s active base of contributors for further enhancement, starting in the first quarter of 2007.

Rather than marking a sudden change of course, Microsoft is openly engaging in a dialogue with Zend, a key open source promoter, and millions of PHP developers, analysts said.”

I think this is something that all open source and php developers have wanted for a long time. This will finally make windows a viable solution for running high-end lamp and php applications.

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