Andi Gutmans (of Zend) has posted a more in-depth look their newly released (beta) product - Zend Server - and its use on a Windows platform.

As I pointed out in my previous post on Zend Server there are a lot of different constituencies that Zend Server applies to. In this post I will focus on developers and system administrators who are using Windows either for developing or running PHP-based Web applications.

He mentions the work that's been done to help stabilize PHP on the Windows platform - both by Zend and Microsoft - and that the difference between Zend Server and the Zend Server community edition has nothing to do with the stability of the software it sets up. He does list some of the features in the Windows version including FastCGI support, native MSI hotfixes and a feature to tweak certain Windows settings for the optimal Zend Server Performance.