Microsoft, the world's largest software manufacturer, recently reached a long-term partnership with Zend, an open source application software development tool provider.
According to the TechWhack website, Microsoft chief technology strategist Bill Hilf said in a statement that the cooperation between the two parties will ensure that PHP (as the current mainstream development language) applications are compatible Previous and future versions of Microsoft Web Server software.
What is remarkable is that this cooperation will involve support for Windows Server 2003 and its future version Longhorn.
Zend co-founder and chief technology officer Andi Gutmans commented in a statement, "php (as the current mainstream development language) could run on Windows before. The problem But its performance has never been very good. ”
Today, more than 22 million websites and 15,000 companies around the world are using php (as the current mainstream development language) language, it is therefore called the most popular development language on the Internet by NetCraft.
Technical improvements from Zend and Microsoft will be provided to PHP (as the current mainstream development language) language developers from the first quarter of 2007, allowing them to develop better applications software.