The company is today expected to announce integration between Zend Technologies’ PHP programming environment and IBM’s Cloudscape database, open sourced last year as Project Derby.
IBM and Zend will also announce a native PHP driver for use with Cloudscape and IBM’s DB2 relational database.
IBM expects to take advantage of PHP’s growing presence in the enterprise. PHP is a popular scripting language, that – thanks to the growing popularity of open source among enterprise developers – is seeing increased use in businesses. IBM estimates 70% of Apache applications running on Unix are PHP.
The deal with Zend follows recent partner and product initiatives by Zend, itself, to consolidate PHP’s presence in the enterprise.
The point here is to expand the community and introduce ourselves and connect ourselves with the PHP community, IBM’s director of database marketing Bernie Spang said. PHP is playing a growing role for our clients.
In pitching Cloudscape and DB2 at open source developers, IBM is also positioning itself against the increasingly popular MySQL open source database.
