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Zend will start selling its PHP software, the latest company to try to convert the success of an open-source software project into commercial success. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

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Looking to widen its developer audience, IBM signs a partnership with Zend to bolster use of the PHP scripting language. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge ...

If you’re a software developer today—or a cloud engineer, or a data scientist, or anyone who works with code—then open source software is like the air that you breathe. But open source wasn’t always ...

IBM is putting its corporate heft behind a popular open-source Web development technology called PHP, in a move meant to reach out to a broader set of developers. On Friday, the tech giant announced a ...