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Microsoft Partners With Zend

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hell-freezes-over-film-at-11 dept.

jesse.castro writes to point out news of Microsoft striking a multi-year partnership with PHP provider Zend to improve PHP's performance on Windows-based Web servers. From the article: "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."

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  1. Haskell vs PHP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Discuss.

  2. In other news... by Karem+Lore · · Score: 4, Funny
    Microsoft has just announced a new language said to potentially drive the future of the web...

    drum roll

    drum roll

    PHP Sharp, or PHP# for short...

    --
    When all is said and done, nothing changes...
  3. Re:No problem. Yet. by Not+The+Real+Me · · Score: 2, Funny

    Microsoft will be coming up with a brand new language for IIS and web developers, it will be called PHP# Dot Net. PHP# Dot Net will be bundled in the next Visual Studio upgrade. It's part of Microsoft's strategy to innovate.

  4. a match made in vulnerability hell by greenpotatochip · · Score: 3, Funny

    holy vulnerable software batman, the riddler and the joker have joined forces!