Development, Analysis And Research

This has been around for a little while, however I received an email today publisizing Zend Core for IBM and i’m still just as confused as when it was anounced back in February.

I’m still scratching my head as to why it is certified?

• PHP Configuration – configure and view existing configurations and changes in a phpinfo display.
• Reference Information – search reference information included in Zend Core for IBM to get immediate answers to questions. Zend Core for IBM provides advanced search functionality, for searching across all included reference information at once.
• Support – directly access support and information regarding IBM and Zend products and services.
• Server Monitoring and Control – view the overall condition of the server and control server start/stop directly from Zend Core for IBM.
• Extension Configuration – control the memory footprint of the PHP solution.
• Benchmarking – build and deploy database-driven web applications.

The only aspects I can really see that are an extension to the Zend Platform, is added control of extensions, CloudScape and searching documentation. Would be nice to see a live demo… Or get a real contrast of the differences.