I am very excited to share with you that Rogue Wave Software has
acquired Zend. This gives us the opportunity to accelerate our reach and
further PHP development.
http://www.roguewave.com/
Rogue Wave is a leader in software development counting over 3,000
enterprise customers across all industries. With its long heritage in
mission-critical software development, Rogue Wave, like Zend, is
passionate about supporting the development of great, high quality code.
Strong synergies
Rogue Wave brings to the table credibility and reach into the biggest
enterprises in the world, with most of them using PHP in some shape or
form. Through its acquisition of OpenLogic in 2013, Rogue Wave has an
ongoing commitment to OSS, with enterprise-class support for hundreds of
open source software packages. Now, with Zend, Rogue Wave supports the
full LAMP stack including Linux.
What's next?
Our commitment to open source including PHP, Zend Framework, and Eclipse
PDT continues to be very strong. In fact, we're working harder than ever
to make PHP 7 (powered by Zend Engine) the most improved, most exciting
release yet. And, of course, Zend Framework 3. But more on that at next
week's ZendCon.
From a commercial point of view we're very excited about the innovation
we've been driving with Zend Server including the revolutionary Z-Ray
capability, a must-have in every developer's toolbox. We will continue
to innovate on this front and others and at the same time continue to
align with open source efforts such as PHP 7.
What's the biggest change?
Our ability to accelerate enterprise reach and adoption of PHP while
being able to serve customers from the application all the way to the
operating system. We see this as a very exciting opportunity not only
for the two entities, but for the PHP community as a whole.
This all comes at a time when innovation around PHP is at an all-time
high. PHP 7 will be out by end of year with 2X the performance and 3X
the throughput. In addition, the application eco-system is going through
a major refresh including upcoming Drupal 8 and Magento 2, at a time
when overall standardization across frameworks and tools is bringing the
PHP community together like never before.
Our commitment to our customers
Partnering with customers and the community, Zend has created a
world-class enterprise PHP offering. With the new organization, we'll
continue to advance our technology and are focused on making this a
seamless transition for our customers. Together we'll accelerate PHP in
the enterprise.
These are exciting times for the PHP community & Zend. We look forward
to continued success.
Happy PHPing,
Andi Gutmans
Zend Co-founder
midrange.com
