1. “ The APS standard is already supported by more than 100 PHP applications for everything from blogging and collaboration to content management, ecommerce and CRM. The Parallels-Zend partnership advances the web hosting industry by helping service providers deliver a greater variety of professional PHP applications and by growing the channel for PHP application vendors.” Serguei Beloussov, CEO of Parallels Zend Technologies Mark de Visser, CMO “
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4. [By 2013] commercial and corporate IT developers will compose more than 3 million developers in the community — growing from 13% to 60% of the worldwide PHP developer population. (Source: Dec 2007, Findings – Corporate and IT Programmers Will Discover PHP's Benefits in Larger Numbers) The Growth of PHP (Gartner)
Results? 4 out of top 10 most popular web sites are PHP. You may be saying: we are focused on enterprise applications not web sites. Some typical technological requirements of high-traffic web sites: -applications evolve rapidly -reusable components -TCO -Scalable not to dissimilar to SOA
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