“Zend CEO Andi Gutmans likes to tout the benefits of PHP and Web
2.0 development for business. In fact, he calls Zend ‘the PHP
company.’ PHP, which stands for ‘Hypertext Preprocessor Platform,’
is becoming the language of choice for companies embracing
service-oriented architectures, creating and mixing Web services
into a whole new generation of sophisticated commercial
applications.“‘PHP is the most popular Web engine out there. Its ease of use
makes it like Visual Basic for the Web. Plus, it has an ecosystem
around it,’ Gutmans told LinuxInsider. He is pushing for the
continued growth of PHP–much like an explorer searching for the
Holy Grail…”