PHP in the news

IBM and Burton group get on board

[ergophobe]

Seems like the ship has been out of the harbor for quite some time now, but IBM and Burton group managed to get on board now...

IBM is putting its corporate heft behind a popular open-source Web development technology called PHP, in a move meant to reach out to a broader set of developers.

IBM's push into PHP and scripting reflects IBM's disillusionment with the Java standardization process and the industry's inability to make Java very easy to use.

from ZDNet [news.zdnet.com]

and more recently

P-Languages...should be viewed as additional, albeit first-class tools
that information technology organizations can use to solve
enterprise-scripting problems,

from Internet News [internetnews.com]

[coopster]

IBM does and has provided some support for the P's, but nowhere near where they should have been. I've been harping on them about it for years now. They still lack in options to access their database. I'd love to see the DB interface tools like Oracle and MySQL have for PHP. Wouldn't that be nice? But no, they have to start with this Cloudscape option first. Why not go straight to the powerhouse, DB2? Man, they drive me nuts sometimes...

[jatar_k]

now that is great news