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Below is some more news from Great Bridge http://www.greatbridge.com
that I thought you'd be interested in.
Great Bridge announced this morning that three members of the PHP
development project's core steering group have joined Great Bridge's
advisory board to help Great Bridge with their commitment to full
integration of open source PHP and PostgreSQL.


PHP core developers join forces with Great Bridge
to power PHP-PostgreSQL solutions

PHP leaders will advise open source database experts on full integration 
of scalable open source products for building dynamic Web sites

NORFOLK, VA, March 27, 2001 - Three members of the PHP development project's
core steering group have joined the elite Great Bridge advisory committee,
Great Bridge announced today. Rasmus Lerdorf, creator of the PHP server-side
scripting language; Thies Arntzen, an expert in PHP-database connectivity;
and Sascha Schumann, co-author of a leading PHP book, Professional PHP
Programming, will join the group of developers advising the company best
known for its support of the PostgreSQL database. The move demonstrates
Great Bridge's commitment to full integration of open source PHP and
PostgreSQL to create powerful building blocks for dynamic, database-driven
Web sites. 
Great Bridge provides expert-level professional services and technical
support for PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open-source database.
Yesterday, the company announced a wide-ranging partnership with Zend
Technologies, the leading commercial provider of value-added PHP products
and services. Zend co-founders Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans are also
members of the PHP core development group.
PHP, created by Lerdorf in 1995 as a personal project to connect simple Web
pages and databases, provides an open source alternative to proprietary
offerings such as Microsoft's Active Server Pages and Allaire Corporation's
Cold Fusion. PHP is one of the most successful and widely used open source
technologies on the Internet; more than 2.5 million Web sites actively
support the language, according to a monthly survey by Internet research
firm Netcraft (http://www.netcraft.com).
Lerdorf, Arntzen and Schumann join a group of distinguished open source
developers on the Great Bridge advisory committee, including 13 experts in
various aspects of the PostgreSQL database. 

"We believe the leaders of the hacker community can help us make better
decisions as we help grow the open source user base into the mainstream
corporate world," said Great Bridge President of Hacker Relations Ned Lilly.
"Equally important, we want the people who contributed to the development of
technologies such as PostgreSQL and PHP to share in our success as a
company."
Lerdorf, a well known open source advocate, believes the PostgreSQL-PHP
integration will strengthen both applications. 
"Great Bridge is building an exciting company around the promotion and
support of open source technologies," said Lerdorf. "I'm happy to be working
with them to leverage their core competency in PostgreSQL into other widely
used technologies. This will only make PHP and PostgreSQL better."
About Great Bridge
Great Bridge LLC provides open source solutions powered by PostgreSQL, the
world's most advanced open source database. Great Bridge delivers
value-added open source software and support services based on PostgreSQL,
empowering e-business builders with an enterprise-class database and tools
at a fraction of the cost of closed, proprietary alternatives.
Headquartered in Norfolk, VA, Great Bridge is a privately held company
funded by Landmark Communications, Inc., the media company that also owns
The Weather Channel, weather.com, and national and international interests
in newspapers, broadcasting, electronic publishing, and interactive media.

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