I was surprised to read this article from Redmond Developer News, which describes Microsoft’s partnership with Zend. Zend is probably the most influential company driving PHP development and performance. Most large PHP websites we see are running on a *nix server platform because performance on Windows has historically been abysmal. But that may now change:

“A lot of PHP development happens on Windows,” says Mark de Visser, Zend’s chief marketing officer. “However, most deployment happens on Linux. Why? Because PHP just doesn’t run very well on Windows. That was something that Microsoft didn’t like and that we saw as a problem. So, we got together with the aim of making sure that PHP had equal performance on Windows as it has on Linux and Unix.”

Zend is claiming improved Windows performance of between 200 percent and 300 percent overall with Zend Core 2.0.

It is good to see collaboration on PHP from Microsoft. But I’m sure they will still be touting their web development platforms just the same.

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