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Zend has forged strong, substantive partnerships with leading companies. By pooling resources, Zend and its Strategic Partners integrate their respective products and services to provide advanced solutions that address customers evolving needs.

Adobe
IBM
Microsoft
MySQL
Oracle
RightScale
VMware

	Zend and Adobe have teamed together to bring together the flexibility, productivity and enterprise reliability of Zend’s PHP technologies with the user experience benefits of Adobe Flex. The partnership delivers technologies, content and services that make it easy for developers to build web Rich Internet Application using Flex and PHP. A key deliverable is the integration of Action Message Format (AMF) support into Zend Framework. AMF is an open-source, binary, high-speed format enabling Flash/Flex-based client applications to easily and rapidly exchange rich media and other data with servers. Zend Framework is an open source PHP application framework best known for its support for flexible, efficient creation of web applications. Zend Framework is bundled with Adobe Flash Builder. Click here for more Information on the AMF and PHP. Zend Studio and Adobe Flash Builder are both built on the open source Eclipse platform, enabling developers to use the same environment for developing the Flex front-end and the PHP back-end.

IBM	Zend and IBM have partnered to deliver a complete PHP development and runtime environment solution for the IBM i platform ((previously AS/400). Zend solutions for IBM i include a special edition of Zend Studio and Zend Server for IBM i, a reliable, high-performance PHP runtime environment, completely supported by Zend. The community edition of Zend Server for IBM i comes bundled with the IBM i platform and features integration with IBM's DB2 and Informix databases and more. Click here to download your copy of Zend Server for IBM i now! For more information on using PHP with IBM see http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/db2/ad/php.html. IBM and Zend are also collaborating on the open source SimpleCloud project, which enables developers to write portable cloud applications.

	Zend and Microsoft have formed a strategic collaboration aimed at enhancing the performance and reliability of running PHP applications on Windows Server, and contributing these enhancements to the Open Source community. The Microsoft – Zend collaboration seeks to deliver richer functionality and better integration, resulting in improved performance and increased reliability. Improvements include: PHP codebase improvements Improvements in IIS 7 support for PHP Improvements in FastCGI for IIS (included in Windows Server 2008) Windows Azure component in Zend Framework Microsoft and Zend are also collaborating on the open source SimpleCloud project, which enables developers to write portable cloud applications.

	Zend and MySQL have partnered to simplify and improve the productivity of developing and deploying Web applications with open source technology. The partnership focuses on compatibility and integration between the MySQL® database and Zend's PHP products. Customers will benefit from access to these comprehensive solutions offered by Zend and MySQL in partnership.

	Oracle and Zend Technologies have a long-standing commitment to the PHP developer community. Oracle Database, Application Server and JDeveloper tool, with a PHP extension, all support PHP development. A sizeable percent of Zend customers use Oracle Database infrastructure to develop and deploy enterprise PHP applications. Significant customer momentum has led Oracle and Zend Technologies to take their partnership to the next level. Oracle customers can now access Zend Server from Oracle Unbreakable Linux Network, providing an integrated, highly reliable, high performance runtime environment for business-critical PHP applications. Learn more » Visit Oracle's technology center dedicated to PHP development

	RightScale is the leading provider of cloud management solutions that enable you to design, deploy, manage, and automate business-critical applications on the cloud. To date, over one million servers have been launched on the RightScale Cloud Management Platform – running everything from scalable websites to complex grid applications. Cloud computing represents a tidal shift in the way IT infrastructure operates, enabling greater agility and lower costs across company sizes. RightScale delivers the power of the cloud to every business. The partnership between Zend and RightScale provides PHP professionals easy access to the Zend products within the RightScale platform in development, testing and production.

	VMware, the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, delivers customer-proven solutions that reduce IT complexity while significantly lowering costs and enabling more flexible, agile service delivery. VMware and Zend have partnered to help IT organizations streamline PHP application development and deployment. Through integration of Zend’s development tools and web application server solutions with VMware’s leading virtualization and cloud solutions, companies can put applications in the hands of end-users faster, reduce hardware costs and ensure high performance and scalability.