There's an interesting new post over on the O'Reilly OnLamp.com website containing some statistics about their book sales for the past few years by language.

Recently there was a thread on the O'Reilly Radar started by Tim O'Reilly posting a chart that I put together from our book sales data. The chart showed comparative market share for most of the relevant programming languages. I have updated this in the chart below and have included 2005 data as well.

The chart shows the trends each of the languages' sales has followed over the course of the past years. PHP's on the last and seems to have held pretty steady in a time when very few seem to be trending upward.

As mentioned by php|architect today, PHPAudit is having their second annual "Dog Days of Summer" sale going on now (through August 11th) with discounts on their PHPAudit and ionCube products.

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If you'd like to try out one of their products to see the great quality, you can download a "lite" version of PHPAudit and give it a shot.

Christian Wenz has posted this new item on his blog today with a report relating to the Oracle/Zend rumors that have been floating around.

Well, the rumors (that also made it into blogosphere, including Toby's post) obviously could not be ignored by Zend any longer. Therefore, the German division of Zend just sent out an email to a couple of people officially stating that Zend is currently not negotiating a sale to Oracle.

I suppose only time will tell on the deal, but it seems for now that the sale is not going to happen (and that there never was a sale in talks at all).