Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 10:55:24 -0700
From: Sara Killingsworth <saralk@home.com>
To: SaraLK@Home.Com
Subject: Zend Launches PHP Community Web Site

US Press Contact:	Sara Killingsworth
			Marketing Counsel
			Zend Technologies, Ltd.
			Phone: 480-961-1515
			Fax:   480-961-2126
			SaraLK@Home.Com

           Zend.Com Launched as Home for PHP Community
 
Israel, March 2, 2000--Zend Technologies announces the launch of its Web
site, a central resource for PHP information, providing tutorials, tips,
case studies, a knowledge base, bulletin boards, mailing list archives,
news and information about the PHP community. Zend.com was designed to
be a home to the PHP community, containing the repository of the most
comprehensive PHP-related body of knowledge, information and news. 
	Zend has assembled an impressive team of writers and contributors who
continually update and add to the available information at Zend.com.
Contributors to the site include PHP Group members Stig Bakken, Andi
Gutmans, and Zeev Suraski, as well as PHP contributors Leon Atkinson,
Anthony Awtrey, Till Gerkin, Richard Lynch and Tobias Ratschiller.
	"We are very excited about the launch," said Zend CEO Doron Gerstel.
"This represents the first time a commercial enterprise is earmarking
major resources toward the PHP community. We've seen PHP grow
dramatically in the past year, being used on almost a million and a half
Web sites. Zend.com answers the needs of the entire PHP user community,
from those who are just getting started through the experienced
developer, by providing one central site for PHP resources."
	Zend Technologies Ltd. is an Israeli startup specializing in Internet
infrastructure software. Zend is the leader in PHP technology. Zend will
continue to lead in the development and provision of solutions and
added-value services for Web site and application development. 
	Zend products are designed to increase developers' productivity as well
as the performance of their sites. At the same time, Zend is committed
to the advancement of PHP as a widely-distributed open-source scripting
language.	
	Zend founders, Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans are members of the PHP
core development team, known as the PHP Group. Suraski and Gutmans
developed the Zend Engine-a basic general-purpose scripting engine that
drives PHP 4-and invested intensive efforts to develop the company's
proprietary technology.
	PHP (www.php.net) is a freeware, open-source scripting language used
for developing dynamic Web pages for e-commerce and other dynamic Web
applications. Unlike other scripting languages for Web page development,
PHP offers excellent connectivity to most of the common database
interfaces (including Oracle, Sybase, MySQL, ODBC and many others). PHP
also offers integration with various external libraries which allow the
developer to do everything from generating PDF documents to parsing XML.
Perhaps the greatest advantage of PHP, when compared to other scripting
languages such as ASP or ColdFusion, is that it is open source and
cross-platform to adapt to today's heterogeneous network environments.
	PHP is the natural choice for developers on Linux machines running
Apache server software, but runs equally well on any other UNIX or
Windows platform, with Netscape or Microsoft Web server software. PHP
supports OpenLink, Win32 COM, Hyperwave, Empress, GNU recode, and PNG
file formats. It also supports the WDDX complex data exchange between
virtually all Web programming languages.
For more information on Zend and PHP, visit http://www.zend.com. 
				
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