Zend - PHP application stack

Zend Server is a complete, enterprise-ready Web Application Server for running and managing PHP applications that require a high level of reliability, performance and security. It boosts application performane using byte code optimizer. It provides application stack for PHP application. It also provide support to connect to Java applications.

Zend Framework is the leading open source PHP framework. Its use-at-will components offer solutions for almost all requirements encountered in complex applications. Zend Community edition includes the following.

• Bytecode accelerator (Optimizer+)
• Zend Data Cache
• A certified PHP distribution
• Zend Framework
• Apache (or IIS integration)
• MySQL (on Windows and Mac OS X)
• Out-of-the-box connectivity to all common databases
• Java code connectivity
• Web-based PHP administrator console

Zend Enterprise Edition has additional capabilities of page caching, job queue, Application monitoring and much more.