In a new press release from Zend today, there's an announcement abut the release of their latest version of the "Zend Platform" - version 2.

Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP company, and creator of products and services supporting the development, deployment and management of open source PHP-based applications, today announced Zend Platform 2. This new version of the first-ever management platform for PHP applications uniquely delivers the reliability, scalability and interoperability required for business critical applications. Zend Platform 2 brings enhanced application performance and simplified data synchronization. New features include:

• State-of-the-art session clustering, which dramatically improves Web application performance, uptime and response time
• Enhanced PHP Intelligence modules, an unmatched back-in-time feature to easily reproduce problems all the way to their source
• PHP configuration cloning across servers
• Faster, streamlined execution of PHP applications

There are several other features listed in teh press release, and it sounds like it's going to be one powerful application. At $995 USD per license, though, it's not exactly made for the typical end user...