Today, Zend and Microsoft announced a strategic partnership that
will transform developer productivity in the cloud. Before I
share the details of this news, I’d like to cover some background
on Zend and Microsoft’s past collaboration to provide additional
context on why today’s announcement is significant for both Zend
and Microsoft!
Early Stealth Relationship
In 2001, a small Microsoft SWAT team focused on winning more Web
share for Windows Server reached out to the PHP Group. They
invited us for a few days to Redmond with the goal of boosting
PHP support for Windows. Their motivation was simple: PHP on
Linux had already dominated a major part of Web share and they
were interested in selling more Windows Servers into that market.
Hence, PHP needed to run well on Windows Server. We made some
significant improvements during the few days in Redmond, but that
forward-looking team met some internal opposition for …
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