Zend Technologies and IBM are expanding their partnership in the PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) application development space, focusing on IBM’s DB2 database.Featured in the arrangement are enhanced IBM DB2 Express-C capabilities in IBM Zend Core for IBM, which is Zend’s PHP offering. DB2 Express-C is IBM’s hybrid relational-XML data server for accessing enterprise capabilities such as data replication, clustering and offsite disaster recovery.Also included is new support for DB2 Connect technology to access i5/PS and z/OS DB2 data servers. DB2 Connect technology makes it easy to build PHP applications that leverage DB2 hosted on IBM System z and System i servers.Additionally, users can leverage IBM System i Linux partitions and the System i attached BladeCenter and System x servers.Users also get a single source of support for the integrated PHP and DB2 stack. Zend will provide this support.
Zend Core for IBM features a PHP-based application development and deployment stack that includes Apache, PHP, the Zend Framework and DB2 Express-C.
