Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 14:50:10 -0700
From: "Sara L. Killingsworth" <saralk@home.com>
To: SaraLK@Home.Com
Subject: Zend Technologies News

Contact Information

Billie Kaye Gavin                              Sara Killingsworth
Experts Exchange, Inc.                     Zend Technologies
650-294-5000                                   480-961-1515
billie@experts-exchange.com            SaraLK@Zend.Com

For Immediate Release:

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Experts-Exchange.Com and Zend Technologies Partnership Expands Global IT
                   Professional Collaboration Network

        Experts Exchange Adds PHP Technology Leader To Its Roster

San Mateo, Calif., and Ramat Gan, Israel, October 19, 2000 – Experts
Exchange, Inc., the dominant network for knowledge collaboration and
exchange among IT professionals on the Web (www.experts-exchange.com),
today formally announced a new partnership with Zend Technologies, the
leader in PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) technology. Under terms of
the agreement, Zend.com-site visitors will have access to the Experts
Exchange IT Professional Collaboration Network, providing instant access
to more than 80,000 IT experts and a Knowledge Base of more than two and
one-half million postings. Zend.com is the premier destination site for
the worldwide community of users who seek PHP-related information and
support services.

“By partnering with Zend Technologies, Experts Exchange has again proven
its commitment to providing today’s IT professionals with access to
real-time knowledge and collaboration with their peers around the
world,” said Keith McCurdy, CEO of Experts Exchange. “As the leading
proponent of PHP technology, Zend represents a strategic alliance and
helps us increase our reach as a global resource for technical knowledge
collaboration. We are very pleased to partner with Zend.”

The agreement with Experts Exchange provides visitors to Zend’s Web site
free access to Experts Exchange via Zend’s site. Zend site visitors will
then be able to quickly find validated answers to their questions about
PHP and related topics.
PHP is an open-source, server-side scripting language (freely
downloadable from php.net or zend.com) for creating dynamic Web pages
for e-commerce and other Web applications. A dynamic Web page is a page
that interacts with the user, so that each user visiting the page sees
customized information.  Dynamic Web applications are prevalent in
commercial (e-commerce) sites, where the content displayed is generated
from information accessed in a database or other external source.

"Zend Technologies is very pleased to offer Experts Exchange services to
the PHP community," said Doron Gerstel, president and CEO, Zend
Technologies. "This enables Zend.com visitors to access a vast
collection of expert advice relative to the popular PHP scripting
language. The service is in keeping with Zend's mission to offer
commercial backing for PHP developers. Adding this element to Zend.com,
together with other Zend commercial products, also makes PHP more
attractive to our enterprise customers."

About Zend Technologies
Zend Technologies, located in Ramat Gan, Israel, develops and markets
Internet infrastructure software programs.  In addition to offering
proprietary and revenue-generating products, Zend remains committed to
the advancement and proliferation of PHP as a freeware, open-source
scripting language. Zend is the leader in PHP technology, and will
continue to lead in the development and provision of solutions and
value-added services for Web site and application development.  The
company will continue to offer expertise and technical backing to the
PHP open-source community. PHP is used to develop dynamic Web pages for
e-commerce and other Web applications. PHP applications run on more than
30 percent of Web servers running Apache software, representing the most
popular language module for Apache servers
.
About Experts-Exchange
Experts-Exchange.com is the largest IT Professional Collaboration
Network on the Web. Experts Exchange, Inc. supports an open community of
80,000 IT experts and provides its ˝ million members with over 2 ˝
million postings on information technology that are validated by its
patented Collaboration Incentive System. Funded by J.P. Morgan Capital
Corporation, the private equity investment unit of J.P. Morgan & Co.
Incorporated [NYSE:JPM], Experts Exchange is available at
www.experts-exchange.com and at leading Web sites such as AltaVista,
Network World and Linuxcare.
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