Zend technologies is set to release a tool that will assist in PHP development of Oracle databases for free.
San Francisco - Oracle and PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) tools maker Zend Technologies on Monday will announce plans to enhance open source PHP development on Oracle databases via a free package called Zend Core for Oracle.
Due in the third quarter, the product will provide integration between the Oracle database and Zend's PHP environment. The offering will be available from the Oracle Technology Network, but Zend will sell related support services.
PHP is building momentum as a development paradigm and possible alternative to Java and Microsoft's .Net, although the technology could be used in mixed application environments. PHP is part of the up-and-coming open source application stack dubbed LAMP (
Linux, Apache, MySQL, and Perl/PHP/Python).
Zend Core is intended to streamline PHP development on Oracle's database, which otherwise can be complicated, according to Zend Vice President Pamela Roussos. "It can be a very time-consuming, tedious, and error-prone process. What we're doing is we're doing all the work," Roussos said. The Zend Core package enables PHP applications to be up and running with an Oracle database within minutes, she said.
