Greg Beaver has his take today on the Zend Framework and why it (or any other framework) is good for PHP.

Recently, there has been a fair amount of fear over the Zend Framework. This kind of reaction always surprises me. As I see it, there are two reasons to fear a new software project

1. the developers plan to patent it
2. the developers plan to close the source and charge a lot of money for it

He also states that it can only help PHP to have a "one solution" kind of setup, be it the Zend framework or some other. He does have one piece of advice to the Zend developers, though - put a lot of work into the interfaces to existing apps. People already using software (like PEAR) don't want to have to do a rewrite just to use the framework. They're comfortable in it, and might resist the change if there's no interface...