Zend launches new version of PHP certification license to seek advantages in server-side development_PHP Tutorial

[php100 Comprehensive Report] Recently, Zend announced a “Zend Unlimited Subscription” licensing option for its PHP product line. Currently, this licensing option is only available in the United States and Europe. Zend's announcement is mainly used to solve licensing problems caused by frequent changes in software running instances in cloud computing environments. It is also related to the growing market demand for PHP as a server-side application.

In order to ensure that PHP is the preferred web development platform, various IT organizations hope that PHP will improve productivity, performance and stability while maintaining the cost of using PHP. Cloud computing is a licensing model currently favored by IT managers, which allows them to better control their budgets, which is also of great benefit to the development of cloud computing. With Zend Unlimited subscriptions, IT organizations don't have to worry about additional servers being licensed.

Zend’s announcement is mainly for its PHP product line license, including application server (Zend Server), multi-server application manager (Zend Server Cluster Manager) and a PHP IDE (Zend Studio). Support for these products is also available with an unlimited licensing option.

Zend Server: Enterprise-level PHP web application server

Zend Server Cluster Manager: Manage the deployment of multi-server PHP applications

Zend Studio: Excellent PHP development integrated environment, IDEs commonly used by PHP developers

Technical support: Zend will provide round-the-clock technical support for this license, including PHP updates and some security patches

Zend advertises itself as a "PHP company". The unlimited license is designed to provide a certain competitive advantage to companies using PHP for server-side web application development. Licensing issues will inevitably go through a negotiation process. As a reader, when your company moves to the cloud and virtualized data centers, what solutions will you adopt?