Welcome to the February edition of the Zend IBM i Newsletter! This is a monthly newsletter dedicated to PHP for the IBM i community.

STILL ON ZEND CORE? THINK OF MOVING TO ZEND SERVER! - BY ALAN SEIDEN

Zend Core and Zend Platform will reach "end of life" on July 1, 2011. Support will continue to be offered by Zend, for those customers with a support contract, until July 1, 2011. Alan Seiden, Zend Framework Certified Engineer, answers some of the common questions on upgrading from Zend Core to Zend Server.

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PODCAST: ARE YOU AN "OLD SCHOOL" RPG DEVELOPER OR A "NEW SCHOOL" PHP DEVELOPER?

While programmers have a tendency to look forward to the brightness of the future there is a lot that can be learned by looking back at where we came from. Presented by Mike Pavlak, Solutions Consultant and IBM i Series expert, this podcast highlights what PHP developers and "old-school" RPG developers can learn from each other.

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MOST WATCHED WEBINAR - DON'T SAY NO - EXTEND YOUR RPG APPLICATION SET WITH PHP - BY JON PARIS

Did you miss this session given by a popular guru? Jon Paris, IBM System Magazine, Business Systems edition technical editor, talked about various ways in which PHP can help you in extending your existing RPG application set without breaking the budget.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Webinar: Your First Zend Framework Project on IBM i - by Alan Seiden
March 09th, 2011 - 9:00 am PST

Zend Framework provides a free, powerful structure for PHP Applications on IBM i. In this webinar, Alan Seiden, will show step by step process to create a basic PHP application with Zend Framework.

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Webinar: The First 5 Steps to Getting Started with PHP on IBM i (IBM i webinar Series Part 2) - by Mike Pavlak
March 23rd, 2011 - 9:00 am PDT

This webinar is part 2 in a series of webinars about PHP and IBM i. In this presentation, Mike Pavlak will focus on the five steps you need to build your first PHP application on IBM i.

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UPCOMING TRAINING

IBM i Training Bundle

A-to-Zend for IBM i Programmers is a training package designed for IBM i/OS programmers that not only want to learn to tie existing RPG applications to PHP, but also want to acquire a solid foundation in PHP culminating in the PHP 5.3 certification. This training bundle includes:

PHP I:Foundations for IBM i programmers »
PHP II: Higher Structures »
Test Prep: PHP 5.3 Certification (includes Exam Voucher) »

NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM THE IBM i TEAM

IBM's Watson beats Jeopardy! Game-show Champs

In a 3-night, 2-game match, IBM Watson competed and won against Jeopardy! all-time champions, Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings. Watson is a workload-optimized system designed for complex analytics running on parallel POWER7 processors. IBM i runs on Power7 Servers also! Building Watson on the commercially available Power 750 systems ensures the rapid adoption of workload-optimized systems in industries where knowledge acquisition and analytics are important. Watson represents the future of systems design and we are just beginning to discover the potential applications for complex analytics and natural language recognition in the future.

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Alison Butterill
Product Manager for Application Development Products for Power Systems