Zend launches Eclipse plug-in
Published: 18 Oct 2005 15:00 BST
Zend Technologies on Monday expanded its partner network in an effort to broaden the appeal of its PHP-based development tools.
The company sells a development tool for PHP ; through partnerships and its own development, Zend is beefing up its tools to improve PHP development for business applications.
Zend said it has created an add-on to the Eclipse open source development framework that will allow developers to use Zend's development tool with other Eclipse-based tools to write PHP-based Web applications.
For example, a developer could combine a PHP plug-in with an Eclipse-based reporting software application, called the Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool from Actuate Software, to generate business reports from Web applications, said Doron Gerstel, president and chief executive of Zend.
"Due to the fact that we are using plug-ins, we can market a much richer development environment for PHP than we could do [ourselves]," Gerstel said. The Eclipse plug-in will be available under an open source licence.
In addition, Zend will publish a PHP framework, also under an open source licence, that will allow third-party companies to create add-ins that work in conjunction with Zend's flagship product, Zend Studio.
Start-up Ning, which provides tools and a hosting service for Web applications, will be one of the companies using Zend's PHP framework, Gerstel said. Version 5 of Zend Studio will be available in mid-November, he added.
Ning cofounder Marc Andreessen is on the board of Zend. Other partners include Actuate, IBM and Oracle.
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