Zend Framework Now Supports Windows Azure's

Retain the name for Microsoft is not easy. There is a time where the company should be able to embrace the other side to cooperate. Microsoft is now trying to embrace the PHP developers and invite them to develop applications with the platform Cloud. Giant company is now working with Zend Technologies to launch a 1:10 version of Zend Framework is integrated with Windows Azure. Vijay Rajagopalan, Microsoft's principal architect, said the support of Zend Framework for Windows Azure Cloud, is a successful collaboration of both companies.

2009 mid year ago, Microsoft has released a Community Technology Preview of Windows Azure SDK to develop for PHP CTP, which Rajagopalan promising that Windows Azure will eventually integrate with Zend Technologies. "PHP developers found that the Windows Azure platform attractive," said Jean Paoli, general manager at Microsoft. "Microsoft's decision to contribute to the component-based Windows Azure PHP Zend Framework to help demonstrate Microsoft's commitment to openness and interoperability by providing choices and greater opportunities for Microsoft customers and partners."

Zend Framework support the importance of support in Windows Azure is a new Zend_Service_WindowsAzure component in version 1.10 which is the contribution from the Redmond company's open source PHP projects. Rajagopalan explained that developers will now be able to use the API of Windows Azure of their PHP applications while they can take advantage of the Cloud platform services, such as the Blob Storage, Storage Table and Queue Service.

"The simplicity and flexibility that has PHP makes it very ideal for developing cloud applications to use. Native support for Windows Azure at 1:10 Zend Framework deliver toughness Windows Azure at the Zend Framework user community, "said Zeev Suraski, co-founder of Zend. "Together with this new feature, we shorten the learning curve for beginners, with improved documentation, new tutorials and improved documentation structure."

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