PHP Magazine has a new post today concerning an article from Open Enterprise Trends with a little help from Andi Gutmans.

In the wake of improvements in PHP tools, new administration and even fresh investor money from SAP and Intel, 2005 is shaping up to be a milestone year for PHP. Zend's Andi Gutmans, shares his views with Open Enterprise Trends on why enterprise IT managers are getting more interested in PHP, and discusses where the next upside will be - for PHP and devs/architects that use it. "PHP version 5, with its enhanced Web Services, XML, language interoperability and Object Oriented support offers an answer to enterprise IT staff looking to solve these more complex problems."

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He gives several reasons why PHP is ready to tackle these more complex problems, including: how easy it is to learn, that it's robust and scalable, it's cross-platform, easily extensible and much more. He focuses a bit on PHP 5's web services support, highlighting the native SOAP/WDSL and SimpleXML abilities that were just introduced.

Personally, I think PHP has been ready for "the big time" for a long time now. It's had its share of ups and downs along the way, but what language hasn't. With the stability and ease-of-use (mentioned earlier), PHP is all set to become a real powerhouse in the online dynamic-site development world...