Zend Technologies
Encyclopedia
Zend Technologies Ltd. is an Israeli world wide web
infrastructure software company with headquarters
in Cupertino, California
, U.S.
, technology center in Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv
, Israel
and offices in France
, Italy
and Germany
. The company's operations are currently centered on the development of products relating to the development, deployment and management of PHP
-based web applications, including Zend Studio
.
and Zeev Suraski
who, along with other Israel
i graduates of the Technion, developed PHP
after its creation by Rasmus Lerdorf
.
In 1997, Gutmans and Suraski rewrote the parser of PHP-FI, which has been written by Lerdorf; resulting in PHP 3. In 1998 they redesigned that parser completely, and named it the Zend Engine
. The name Zend is a combination of Suraski's and Gutmans' forenames, Zeev and Andi. PHP 4 is based on the first version of the Zend Engine.
In 1999, their company Zend Technologies was formally established and received initial funding from Israeli venture capital funds
Platinum Neurone Ventures and Walden Israel, an experienced business executive, Doron Gerstel, was recruited to head the company as a CEO.
In July 2004, Zend Technologies raised $8M in a series C funding and establishes a headquarters in the USA. In January 2005 Intel Capital and SAP ventures joined the existing investors in Zend Technologies.
In June 2006, Zend Technologies received the Best Startup Software Company Award at the Israeli Venture Association Annual Hi Tech Conference in Tel Aviv. The award was presented by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
.
In August 2006 Zend raised $20 Million in a series D funding.
In February 2009, Zend's Co-Founder Andi Gutmans
was appointed as Chief Executive Officer
, after previously serving as the company's VP of Research and Development. Zend also recruited Mark Burton, who previously served as EVP of worldwide sales and alliances at MySQL
, as Executive Chairman.
is a web application server for running and managing PHP applications. Zend Server comes with built-in application monitoring, application problem diagnostics, caching and optimization capabilities and a Web-based administrator console. Zend Server’s installers are native to the OS (RPM/DEB/MSI) and include a tested PHP distribution, Zend Framework, out-of-the-box connectivity to all common databases, Java connectivity, and a scalable and PHP-integrated download server (for Linux only).
is a free, complete PHP stack that is suited for developing PHP applications or running non-critical applications in production. Zend Server Community Edition is simple to install, supports Linux, Windows and Mac OS X, and is periodically updated by Zend.
applications and reporting on performance and possible problems. It also offers a PHP accelerator
(often confused with the free Zend Optimizer), a content caching solution including an API for partial page caching, session clustering and numerous management tools. Zend Platform can be used in conjunction with Zend Studio
to do remote debugging and profiling of PHP applications in their native server environment.
is a commercial, proprietary integrated development environment
(IDE) for PHP
.
s. There are almost 5,000 Zend Certified Engineers in the world with either PHP 4 or PHP 5 certifications. To help Zend Certified Engineers gain employment, Zend lists all the persons who have passed the Zend PHP Certification Exam in its directory, Yellow Pages for PHP Professionals. Also, they allow ZCEs to place a ZCE logo on their personal web site/resume.
is the heart of PHP, originally written by Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski. The first version of Zend Engine was shipped with PHP4. Zend sponsors some developers to actively contribute to the engine, while the main development of Zend Engine today comes from contributors to the PHP project.
is an open-source, object-oriented web application framework written in PHP5 and licensed under the new BSD license.
is an open-source PHP API for accessing services from multiple cloud vendors with configuration changes alone. This project is the first project Zend has launched to facilitate PHP development for the cloud.
delivered a speech at the OSS Technical Seminar organized by the Open Standard Support Organization, Sunwah - PearL Linux
and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council
.
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World Wide Web
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infrastructure software company with headquarters
Headquarters
Headquarters denotes the location where most, if not all, of the important functions of an organization are coordinated. In the United States, the corporate headquarters represents the entity at the center or the top of a corporation taking full responsibility managing all business activities...
in Cupertino, California
California
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, U.S.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, technology center in Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv District
The Tel Aviv District is the smallest and most densely populated of six administrative districts of Israel with a population of 1.2 million residents...
, Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
and offices in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, Italy
Italy
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and Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. The company's operations are currently centered on the development of products relating to the development, deployment and management of PHP
PHP
PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...
-based web applications, including Zend Studio
Zend Studio
Zend Studio is a commercial, proprietary integrated development environment for PHP developed by Zend Technologies, based on the PHP Development Tools plugin for the Eclipse platform ....
.
History
Zend Technologies was founded by Andi GutmansAndi Gutmans
Andi Gutmans is an Israeli programmer with Swiss roots, PHP developer and co-founder of Zend Technologies. A graduate of the Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Gutmans and fellow student Zeev Suraski created PHP 3 in 1997...
and Zeev Suraski
Zeev Suraski
Zeev Suraski is an Israeli programmer, PHP developer and co-founder of Zend Technologies. A graduate of the Technion in Haifa, Israel, Suraski and fellow student Andi Gutmans created PHP 3 in 1997. In 1999 they wrote the Zend Engine, the core of PHP 4, and founded Zend Technologies, which has...
who, along with other Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
i graduates of the Technion, developed PHP
PHP
PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...
after its creation by Rasmus Lerdorf
Rasmus Lerdorf
Rasmus Lerdorf is a Danish programmer with Canadian citizenship and is most notable as the creator of the PHP scripting language. He authored the first two versions...
.
In 1997, Gutmans and Suraski rewrote the parser of PHP-FI, which has been written by Lerdorf; resulting in PHP 3. In 1998 they redesigned that parser completely, and named it the Zend Engine
Zend engine
The Zend Engine is an open source scripting engine , commonly known for the important role it plays in the web automation language PHP. It was originally developed by Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski while they were students at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. They later founded a...
. The name Zend is a combination of Suraski's and Gutmans' forenames, Zeev and Andi. PHP 4 is based on the first version of the Zend Engine.
In 1999, their company Zend Technologies was formally established and received initial funding from Israeli venture capital funds
Venture capital in Israel
Venture capital in Israel has rapidly developed from the early 1990s, and has about 70 active venture capital funds, of which 14 international VCs with Israeli offices, and additional 220 international funds who actively invest in Israel...
Platinum Neurone Ventures and Walden Israel, an experienced business executive, Doron Gerstel, was recruited to head the company as a CEO.
In July 2004, Zend Technologies raised $8M in a series C funding and establishes a headquarters in the USA. In January 2005 Intel Capital and SAP ventures joined the existing investors in Zend Technologies.
In June 2006, Zend Technologies received the Best Startup Software Company Award at the Israeli Venture Association Annual Hi Tech Conference in Tel Aviv. The award was presented by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
Ehud Olmert
Ehud Olmert is an Israeli politician and lawyer. He served as Prime Minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009, as a Cabinet Minister from 1988 to 1992 and from 2003 to 2006, and as Mayor of Jerusalem from 1993 to 2003....
.
In August 2006 Zend raised $20 Million in a series D funding.
In February 2009, Zend's Co-Founder Andi Gutmans
Andi Gutmans
Andi Gutmans is an Israeli programmer with Swiss roots, PHP developer and co-founder of Zend Technologies. A graduate of the Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Gutmans and fellow student Zeev Suraski created PHP 3 in 1997...
was appointed as Chief Executive Officer
Chief executive officer
A chief executive officer , managing director , Executive Director for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or administrator in charge of total management of an organization...
, after previously serving as the company's VP of Research and Development. Zend also recruited Mark Burton, who previously served as EVP of worldwide sales and alliances at MySQL
MySQL
MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...
, as Executive Chairman.
Zend Server
Zend ServerZend Server
Zend Server refers to a PHP application server product line offered by Zend Technologies, released in early 2009 with production support available for Windows and Linux. It is available in two versions, Zend Server and Zend Server Community Edition. Zend Server is supported on x86 and x86-64...
is a web application server for running and managing PHP applications. Zend Server comes with built-in application monitoring, application problem diagnostics, caching and optimization capabilities and a Web-based administrator console. Zend Server’s installers are native to the OS (RPM/DEB/MSI) and include a tested PHP distribution, Zend Framework, out-of-the-box connectivity to all common databases, Java connectivity, and a scalable and PHP-integrated download server (for Linux only).
Zend Server Community Edition
The community edition of Zend ServerZend Server
Zend Server refers to a PHP application server product line offered by Zend Technologies, released in early 2009 with production support available for Windows and Linux. It is available in two versions, Zend Server and Zend Server Community Edition. Zend Server is supported on x86 and x86-64...
is a free, complete PHP stack that is suited for developing PHP applications or running non-critical applications in production. Zend Server Community Edition is simple to install, supports Linux, Windows and Mac OS X, and is periodically updated by Zend.
Zend Platform
Zend Platform is a product that runs on a web server, monitoring PHPPHP
PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...
applications and reporting on performance and possible problems. It also offers a PHP accelerator
PHP accelerator
A PHP accelerator is a PHP extension designed to improve the performance of software applications written in the PHP programming language.- Operation :...
(often confused with the free Zend Optimizer), a content caching solution including an API for partial page caching, session clustering and numerous management tools. Zend Platform can be used in conjunction with Zend Studio
Zend Studio
Zend Studio is a commercial, proprietary integrated development environment for PHP developed by Zend Technologies, based on the PHP Development Tools plugin for the Eclipse platform ....
to do remote debugging and profiling of PHP applications in their native server environment.
Zend Studio
Zend StudioZend Studio
Zend Studio is a commercial, proprietary integrated development environment for PHP developed by Zend Technologies, based on the PHP Development Tools plugin for the Eclipse platform ....
is a commercial, proprietary integrated development environment
Integrated development environment
An integrated development environment is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development...
(IDE) for PHP
PHP
PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...
.
Zend Certification Test
Zend also provides a PHP Certification Test and certifies people succeeding on the exam as Zend Certified Engineers (ZCE). It is intended to prove that a person is fully qualified to develop PHP web applicationWeb application
A web application is an application that is accessed over a network such as the Internet or an intranet. The term may also mean a computer software application that is coded in a browser-supported language and reliant on a common web browser to render the application executable.Web applications are...
s. There are almost 5,000 Zend Certified Engineers in the world with either PHP 4 or PHP 5 certifications. To help Zend Certified Engineers gain employment, Zend lists all the persons who have passed the Zend PHP Certification Exam in its directory, Yellow Pages for PHP Professionals. Also, they allow ZCEs to place a ZCE logo on their personal web site/resume.
Zend Engine
Zend EngineZend engine
The Zend Engine is an open source scripting engine , commonly known for the important role it plays in the web automation language PHP. It was originally developed by Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski while they were students at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. They later founded a...
is the heart of PHP, originally written by Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski. The first version of Zend Engine was shipped with PHP4. Zend sponsors some developers to actively contribute to the engine, while the main development of Zend Engine today comes from contributors to the PHP project.
Zend Framework
Zend FrameworkZend Framework
Zend Framework is an open source, object-oriented web application framework implemented in PHP 5 and licensed under the New BSD License.-Licensing:...
is an open-source, object-oriented web application framework written in PHP5 and licensed under the new BSD license.
Simple Cloud API
The Simple Cloud APISimple Cloud API
-Announcement:On September 22, 2009, Zend Technologies announced the Simple Cloud API project for improving portability of PHP applications across all major cloud computing platforms...
is an open-source PHP API for accessing services from multiple cloud vendors with configuration changes alone. This project is the first project Zend has launched to facilitate PHP development for the cloud.
Social events
Zend Technologies visits events worldwide to spread the OSS message. In 2005, Zeev SuraskiZeev Suraski
Zeev Suraski is an Israeli programmer, PHP developer and co-founder of Zend Technologies. A graduate of the Technion in Haifa, Israel, Suraski and fellow student Andi Gutmans created PHP 3 in 1997. In 1999 they wrote the Zend Engine, the core of PHP 4, and founded Zend Technologies, which has...
delivered a speech at the OSS Technical Seminar organized by the Open Standard Support Organization, Sunwah - PearL Linux
Sunwah - PearL Linux
Sunwah – PearL Linux is a joint venture of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Sunwah Group . Sunwah – PearL Linux established the Sunwah – PearL Linux Training & Development Centre on the university campus on January 2001...
and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council
Hong Kong Trade Development Council
The Hong Kong Trade Development Council is the international marketing arm for Hong Kong-based manufacturers, traders and service providers. Established in 1966, it has more than 40 offices around the world, including 11 in the Chinese mainland, promoting Hong Kong as a platform for doing business...
.
External links
- Zend Technologies
- Yellow Pages for PHP Professionals
- Zeev Suraski spoke at OSS Technical Seminar in Hong Kong
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