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The PHP Stack for Serious Professionals

You can benefit from Zend expertise by using Zend Core – Zend’s certified PHP distribution. It includes the most reliable and up-to-date version of PHP, tested PHP extensions, database drivers and other enhancements. Zend Core is bundled with Zend Framework (the leading open-source PHP framework), Apache and MySQL and IBM DB2 Express-C databases.  Zend Core also support IIS web servers, Informix and Oracle databases. The complete stack is built, tested and benchmarked to ensure optimum reliability and performance for Linux, Windows, Unix, i5/OS and Macintosh servers.

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New! Zend Core certified for Windows Server 2008

Zend and Microsoft have formed a multi-year strategic collaboration, to enhance the reliability and performance of PHP on the Windows platform. In response to joint customer demand, the two companies have created the first true production-quality PHP environment for Windows.

Zend Core has recently been certified for Windows Server 2008, enabling high-performance applications to be deployed with confidence on Microsoft’s recently released production server platform. A new release of Zend Core specially updated for Windows Server 2008 will be available in March.


Integrated into Windows Server 2008 is FastCGI, which represents the maximum possible performance improvement currently available for Zend Core on the Windows platform. These enhancements combine to produce a 200% - 300% improvement in performance over previous versions of PHP for Windows hosted systems – performance that is now comparable to Linux-based PHP servers.

For installation instructions on using Fast CGI with PHP and Zend Core as an IIS add-on component, for Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 / IIS 6, or for Windows XP / IIS 5, Click here.

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