{"id":1419,"date":"2009-05-09T09:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T08:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1419-is-zend-really-the-php-company.html"},"modified":"2009-05-09T09:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T08:52:00","slug":"is-zend-really-the-php-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1419-is-zend-really-the-php-company.html","title":{"rendered":"Is Zend really the PHP company?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m at Yahoo! Hack day in London \u2013 not hacking, but here for sessions on topics such as YUI<\/a> (Yahoo! User Interface Library) and PHP.<\/p>\n

I had a brief chat with Rasmus Lerdorf<\/a> who is speaking later. I asked him about Zend<\/a>, which presents itself as the PHP company (that is actually the slogan on its web site). Is it really?<\/p>\n

Lerdorf says Zend has no special status. While acknowledging its contribution, he says there are 1300 PHP committers<\/a>, and only 6 work for Zend. He emphasises that PHP is a community project and that decisions are made by consensus, influenced by who is actually willing to write the code, not by Zend or any company.<\/p>\n

I also asked about PDT<\/a> (PHP Development Tools), the Eclipse-based open source IDE. Lerdorf says there are lots of PHP IDEs, and people who use generic editors for PHP, and none has any more status than any other; he doesn\u2019t use PDT.<\/p>\n

From my perspective as press, there are only two organizations who ever encourage me to write about PHP. One is Zend; the other is Microsoft, keen to establish Windows as a credible PHP platform (Lerdorf says PHP on Windows has made enormous progress in the last couple of years). Zend does seem to do more than any other company to promote PHP for commercial and corporate development.<\/p>\n

Lerdorf is not surprised. We\u2019re developers, he says, we don\u2019t do PR.<\/p>\n

Zend\u2019s effort is broadly beneficial to the PHP community \u2013 provided that it does not give a false impression of who owns PHP.<\/p>\n

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