There's an interesting article over on The Register today that asks the question "Is the web's love affair with PHP over?"

If Evans Data Corp (EDC) is to believed, then some big names in enterprise systems have been rash in their support for open source scripting language PHP. This last eight months saw Intel, SAP, Oracle and IBM all support PHP, with investments or product backing through partnerships with PHP king Zend Technologies.

However, EDC's survey has found PHP, along with scripting cousins Perl and Python, is seeing drastically reduced adoption among developers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Use of PHP has dropped by a quarter in EMEA during the last 12 months to just under 28 per cent while 40 per cent of developers said they have no plans to evaluate or use PHP.

I'm not completely sure that I believe their numbers, and I'm glad that Zend has countered back with their own numbers (Netcraft - 22m internet domains use PHP). They say that the adoption of PHP is slowing, that the industry doesn't see PHP as anything more than a "cool little language" - not enterprise-ready. I strongly disagree with this - if anything PHP is more ready for enterprise deployment than it has ever been...

What do you all think? Is PHP slowing down? What can we, as PHP developers, do to help promote and further the language?