Zend Technologies Ltd., a leading Web infrastructure software company, is the internationally recognized authority in PHP. The company provides a complete platform that enables the rapidly growing market of PHP-enabled enterprises to Develop, Protect and Scale their PHP applications.

Zend’s founders are the designers of PHP 4 and the Zend Engine 1.0; on which all PHP sites and applications are run. Zend is also currently leading the design and development of PHP 5 and the Zend Engine 2.0. The company is an active leader in the PHP and open source communities, and plays a central role in the explosive growth of PHP, which is now being used in over 9 million web sites worldwide. As a leader of the PHP market, Zend’s web site zend.com serves as a community resource and information-sharing location, with over 300,000 unique visitors per month.

PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is an open-source server-side scripting language (freely downloadable from php.net and zend.com) for creating dynamic Web pages for e-commerce and other Web applications. A dynamic Web page is a page that interacts with the user, so that each user visiting the page sees customized information. Dynamic Web applications are prevalent in commercial (e-commerce) sites, where content displayed is generated from information accessed in a database or other external source. Prominent corporations using PHP include, CBS, Unilever, Philips, Cisco, Japan Airlines, Air Canada, Lufthansa, GE Marketplace, Lycos/Maxinvest, Wallstreet: Online Germany; AuctionWatch, Sanctum (Perfecto), Transmeta, VillageVoice, Dialpad, BMC and NTT.
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