News from the Zend and MySQL front this morning - these two major forces in the Open Source world are combining forces to make using Zend's products even easier.

In a quote from a press release: MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, and Zend Technologies, designers of the PHP Web scripting engine, today announced a partnership to simplify and improve productivity in developing and deploying Web applications with open source technologies. Through the alliance, the companies are improving compatibility and integration between the MySQL database and Zend's PHP products to make it easier for businesses to use complete open source solutions, such as the popular LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) software stack.

In a partnership between the two, Zend is working to integrate MySQL capibility into its software, with the apparent hope that, eventually, a MySQL database can be seamlessly accessed through the Zend Studio applications...