With a response to this article from the IToolbox site, Robert Peake has voiced his opinion on the question of "Why Oracle?"

A recent article asks the same question I have asked on my own blog: "Why PHP?" -- but this time, from the angle of an Oracle developer. One of the major conclusions the author makes is that, "it's not about Oracle programmers choosing a new language; adding PHP is meant to bring more developers to Oracle. Open source developers I would assume. Fair enough." This begs the question: "Why Oracle?" Not from a developer's standpoint -- but rather, I mean, "Why did Zend partner up with Oracle?"

He talks about why PHP and Oracle can help each other, just by being close partners, and how, in "the right hands", it could be a relationship of some potential. The only downside he mentions is that with Oracle backing some of the projects, they might have a harder time gathering as many Open Source developers...