Zend announced today that they are expanding their partnership with IBM aimed at fueling the growth of production-ready PHP applications in the enterprise. The new agreement includes :

  • Enhanced IBM DB2 Express-C capabilities in Zend Core for IBM, the certified PHP solution from Zend Technologies
  • New support for DB2 Connect technology providing access to highly scalable i5/OS and z/OS DB2 data servers
  • Unified, single-source support for the integrated PHP and DB2 solution stack
  • Support for System i Linux partitions and the System i attached BladeCenter and System x Servers

To support very high workloads, Zend Core for IBM now includes DB2 Connect technology that makes it easy for customers to build enterprise class PHP applications that harness the power and scalability of DB2 hosted on IBM System z (z/OS) and System i (i5/OS ) servers.

You can read more in the Zend press release.