Zend made some major anouncements at this year's Zend/PHP Conference & Expo today involving Eclipse, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM and Zend Core:

Announcements included:

• Zend Studio for Eclipse – The all-new commercial PHP IDE for Eclipse with immediate availability of a downloadable beta version
• IBM releases the IBM Mashup Starter Kit, based on Zend Core, Zend Framework and DB2
• Delivery by Microsoft of a new FastCGI module to improve PHP performance on Windows
• Zend announces support for the Server Core option in Microsoft Windows Server 2008Oracle Announces PHP support for Connection Pooling in Oracle Database 11g

Check out Zend's press releases page for complete information on the announcements.