IBM powers PHP
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In a move expected to accelerate the development of PHP, IBM will now be putting its corporate wight behind the open source programming language.
In an statement expected later today, IBM will announce that they’ve teamed up with Zend Technologies to create a bundle called ZendCore, which will support IBM’s Cloudscape database as wel as Zend’s PHP development tools.
PHP - originally short for “Personal Home Page” - has become a favourate web development language because its varying degrees of simplicity mean that even the least-technically savvy people can use PHP features for developing websites - as described in An Introduction to building pages with php include statements.