"Microsoft is officially helping to fund a joint effort with PHP
vendor Zend to ensure that PHP works well on Microsoft's server
platforms.
"'We're announcing a multi-year agreement to make sure that PHP
is a first-class citizen on the Windows Server platform,' Zend
co-founder Andi Gutmans told internetnews.com. 'PHP has never
really run very well on Windows. It does run on Windows but it
doesn't perform very well; there are a lot of reliability
problems...'"