On his blog today, Ben Ramsey has this new post with his take on all of the big announcements that Zend has made lately and a few opinions dealing with it.

I began this year with the optimistic outlook that it would be the "year of PHP." Indeed, little did I know that this hopeful view would come true - the forecast for PHP looks bright and sunny.

Yet, for whatever reason, and with Zend’s announcement of the PHP Collaboration Project this week at the Zend/PHP Conference and Expo, not everyone in the PHP community is excited about this show of support, and with Zend’s announcement this sentiment has been voiced on more than one blog.

He goes on to describe some of his history with the folks from Zend, the realization that if Zend fails, so does PHP, and some thoughts about what this could mean for the "core of the language". He also briefly discusses the framework that Zend is working up:

I think Zend has stepped foward to show both their commitment to the Enterprise and the community. This is a show of faith to the community; Zend could have easily developed the framework on their own, but, instead, they have invited everyone to have input: community and Enterprise alike.