The Oracle Technology Network has made a download of the Zend Core for Oracle available for download from the Zend site.

Zend Core for Oracle, developed in partnership with Zend Technologies, supports businesses using PHP with Oracle Database for mission-critical Web applications. It provides a seamless out-of-the-box experience delivering a stable, high performance, easy-to-install and supported PHP development and production environment fully integrated with the Oracle Database.

Zend Core for Oracle will be available as a free download from Zend in late 2005; it is currently available in Beta. Support and updates for Zend Core for Oracle will be made available directly from Zend.

The download is just a beta, but still sounds promising. Plus, given that we use Oracle almost exclusively here where I work, I'm definitely going to try it out. You can get access to a FAQ and a Data Sheet over off of the page on the Oracle Technology Network.