In another article from InternetNews.com they focus more on the PHP side of things, answering a few questions with the Zend staff.

"The whole idea of PHP 5 and the Zend platform that is on top of it is to make it enterprise ready," Zend's CEO, Doron Gerstel, told internetnews.com. Gerstel explained that, while PHP is the language with which Zend is deeply involved, Zend is also providing an enterprise platform for PHP.

Gerstel said he sees PHP and Zend as competitors to Microsoft's ASP.net scripting language. At a time when some enterprises are mulling whether to upgrade to newer Windows platforms, or even others such as Linux, the company is positioning the Zend tools as alternative, interoperable programming tools as well.

"PHP is going more and more into places where Microsoft is traditionally very strong, like departmental applications inside enterprises," said Andi Gutmans, a PHP and Zend co-founder.

Always a wonderful thing to hear, and something that most of the PHP community has already known for a while now. It doesn't take much involvement in the PHP community to see that things are growing by leaps and bounds with the sky being the only limit...