Zend today is announcing that it
has opened a public beta of a new product called Zend Server. It’s
completely free for anyone to go download it and try it out. Zend
is really hoping for some good feedback to make this product the
best it can be.
Zend Server is designed to be a all-in-one installer to get setup
quickly with Apache, PHP, Zend Framework, and a PHP optimizer.
It also comes with an admin UI to configure PHP easily.
It uses native installers for various operating systems,
and is available for Windows, Mac OS/X, and Linux (.deb, .rpm or tarball).
There are two versions being released. The full Zend Server
(which after Beta will be a commercial product, price to be
announced), and Zend Server CE, which is a version completely
free to use however you wish. The full Zend Server comes with
the following additional features:
- Page Caching
- Monitoring
- Support & Hot Fixes
If you are interesting in trying out Zend Server for yourself,
check out one of the following links to get started:
- Learn more about the product
- Join the Zend Forums to download the software and discuss your experiences
February 18, 2009 at 8:07 pm
So if you purchase a license key does it "unlock" the community edition? Otherwise is there a simple upgrade process?
February 18, 2009 at 11:23 pm
No, there is no ‘unlocking’ of the CE version to upgrade to full. They are separate products (and therefore separate downloads)
February 19, 2009 at 8:26 am
How does this relate to Zend Core?
Is this an evolution of that platform, meant to replace it?
February 19, 2009 at 10:14 am
With Zend Platform not available on Mac, this sounds like a great addition to my development environment.
What I am concerned about is that although both editions claim to have "Built-in DB connectivity (Oracle, DB2, MySQL,..)", what is installed on a Mac is just mssql, mysql, pgsql and sqlite. No Oracle.
Any ideas?
February 19, 2009 at 3:06 pm
knagurski, for Oracle connectivity you have to compile the php extension by yourself.
In this purpose you need the Oracle instant client that can be downloaded for mac os x : http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/oci/instantclient/index.html
Here are the Oracle recommendation for compiling oracle connectivity for php on mac os x : http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/bibbs-php-leopard.html
Hope this will help you.
February 19, 2009 at 5:39 pm
RE: jsebrech
Zend Server will be the replacement for Zend Core. Zend Platform will continue to support multi-server environments. Over time we plan on enhancing Zend Server to contain all the functionality that Platform also provides.
February 19, 2009 at 8:02 pm
There’s a thread going on about this in the forums: http://forums.zend.com/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=97
Shahar.
February 20, 2009 at 5:58 pm
How is Server a replacement for Core? They seem to be two different products. One is a distribution, the other an application server. Or am I missing something?