According to Chris Shiflett's weblog today, there seems to be a little bit of an issue surrounding Zend and their marketing.

I originally posted this as a comment on John's blog: I must have missed the backlash this time, but I understand the scorn over Zend's marketing statements. In my opinion, the concern has more to do with the lack of credit given to Rasmus than anything else. When Rasmus is referenced as the creator of PHP, no one objects, nor do they seem to consider it to be hoarding credit from the many contributors to PHP.

Andi and Zeev have made substantial contributions, and it's very likely that PHP would never have reached its current level of excellence without their early involvement. It is understandable for Zend to trumpet their founders' involvement with the language. However, I think there would be far fewer objections if Zend's marketing statements at least shared credit for the creation of the language.

It seems that there have been way too many claims that the people over at Zend are the "creators of the language", but haven't referenced the fact that Rasmus started it all. But, from the comments made here it sounds like they have taken note of the problem and are seeking to correct it immediately...

(For the original comments made by John Coggeshall, see his posting here.)