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
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No, there is no ‘unlocking’ of the CE version to upgrade to full. They are separate products (and therefore separate downloads)
Is this an evolution of that platform, meant to replace it?
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?
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.
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.
Shahar.