PHP Optimized for Windows Server 2008 182
Stony Stevenson writes "It used to be that popular PHP applications would run more poorly on Windows Server than on a Linux or Unix servers, for which PHP had been optimized. Specialist in the PHP language Zend Technologies now says that's no longer the case. The Zend Core commercially supported form of PHP has been certified by Microsoft as ready to run 'with performance and stability' on Windows Server 2008, said Andi Gutmans, co-founder and CTO of Zend. Previously, PHP 'didn't run as well as it should on Windows,' said Gutmans, despite the fact that 75% to 80% of PHP users were developing on Windows workstations."
FastCGI != Apache Module (Score:5, Informative)
I applaud the effort to embrace open source languages though and hope they continue along this path of self improvement.
Re:Optimise your spell check (Score:5, Informative)
Re:FastCGI != Apache Module (Score:5, Informative)
Of course, in the case of PHP, there's an extra incentive. I don't trust PHP's security or sanity for shit. So I'd much rather have it running in its own process with its own permissions than have it dynamically linked directly into my webserver
If you have to contact sales to find out the price (Score:5, Informative)
Then the answer is: "More than it's worth."
Re:Misleading (Score:5, Informative)
Only if you have problems reading English. That sentence clearly speaks about development, not deployment.
Re:Misleading (Score:2, Informative)
Re:FastCGI != Apache Module (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Why not Apache? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Optimised? (Score:3, Informative)
Singular with an s-ending takes word+'s
Plural without an s-ending takes word+'s
Plural with an s-ending takes word+es'
The United Nations (and other singular entities with plural names) takes word+'s
Between this and contraction forms, it's pretty obvious why apostrophes are dying out.
Re:another prese (Score:4, Informative)
You're probably perfectly aware that there are a large section of Linux using shops who are perfectly happy to pay, hence the success of RHEL and to a lesser extent SuSE and now Ubuntu all of which offer support around free stuff.
The fact that Zend has worked with IBM on PHP for i5 (AS400) and with Microsoft for decent PHP on Windows only increases the choice of platforms PHP developers have to deploy on, makes PHP projects more popular across other user bases and means that PHP developers have a wider range of employment opportunities available to them. I don't think anyone is under the illusion that the future of PHP development is at 6 person consultancies who specialize in tweaking free CMSs, surviving on that free good stuff and creating pure karma (with no disrespect to small web consultancies intended, but it's a limited niche to attract new active members to the community).
If you'd like to spend your time pitching PHP as a strategic application development option to Fortune 500 companies, government departments and other enterprises, I'm sure we'd all be delighted, but there's not much chance of you spending your time doing that, nor quite frankly of those entities listening to you. They do however talk to Zend.
Zend isn't imposing a cost/tax on anybody or demanding that people pay homage/tribute, especially as PHP is a community project and not owned by Zend. During the past 2 years Zend has increased the amount of free and open source work they've done (Zend Framework and the Eclipse-based PDT) so it's not like they take and don't give.
If there is value companies can get from Zend's solution set, then they will pay for it. And they do. It's simple cost-benefit equations. WRT your "siphoning off revenue" if you look at all the companies in the Open Source space (including MySQL, EZ Publish, Acquia and other) they all provide value adds.
And yeah, I work for Zend. And no, you don't have to buy our stuff (but at least come check it out). And no the decision to monetize PHP wasn't made by executives on the fringe of the FOSS world, but rather technology people in the middle of it. (I have no idea whether they have hair up their asses like you claim - but can gladly inform you that that's not a sound basis for a business strategy unless you're a barber looking for a niche....)
Re:FastCGI != Apache Module (Score:3, Informative)
FastCGI's benefit is that every FastCGI handler is still a separate process, so you don't run into threading issues, while at the same time not invoking the cost of constant process creation (which on windows is expensive), because the processes are reused.