Microsoft opens PHP door
InternetNews | at | by Mike
PHP on Windows is no longer an oxymoron.
Microsoft is officially helping to fund a joint effort with PHP vendor Zend to ensure that PHP works well on Microsoft's server platforms.
"We're announcing a multi-year agreement to make sure that PHP is a first-class citizen on the Windows Server platform," Zend co-founder Andi Gutmans told internetnews.com. "PHP has never really run very well on Windows. It does run on Windows but it doesn't perform very well; there are a lot of reliability problems."
Among the technical improvements that Zend and Microsoft will be making is a FastCGI component of Microsoft's Internet Information Services.