From php|architect: Zend has announced that it has received strategic investments from both Intel Capital and SAP Ventures, a division of SAP AG.

Zend Technologies, Inc., creator and ongoing innovator of PHP, products and services supporting the development, deployment and management of PHP-based applications, today announced it has received strategic investments from both Intel Capital and SAP Ventures, a division of SAP AG. Zend will work with both companies to continue the momentum of open source and PHP solutions for business-critical web applications in enterprise environments.

It looks like, with this partnership coming along, we can only expect bigger and better things out of Zend. Plus, I like the way they put it - "...continue the momentum of open source and PHP solutions for business-critical web applications in enterprise environments." PHP really has taken on a momentum all its own, making converts daily without much in the way of advertising at all. Even Microsoft can't claim that...