![]() ![]() Mac runs neck and neck with Linux based on Zend's 3-year history of Zend Studio IDE downloads.There are now nearly 60 million Mac users worldwide.Gutmans' PR team also sent an interesting list, entitled "Why Mac Matters to the Development World," which included: And my lead sentence should probably have read, "If you were wondering whether Mac is moving into the enterprise…" Actually, that should be enterprise Mac developers. Zend was responding directly to customer demand, Kent Mitchell, Zend's director of product management, told me at the time.Īnd now Zend is responding to Mac developers who, they say, want to have access to the full suite of Zend Server application development capabilities previously available only to Linux and Windows developers. Mobile and the cloud are not breaking news. Last August, for example, the Cupertino, Calif.-based company released Zend Server 5.5, which essentially addressed the increasing unpredictability of traffic and workloads caused both by the growing popularity of the cloud and the proliferation of end user devices. Not bleeding-edge fads, but real, late-in-the-hype-cycle trends. The point is, Zend does a consistent job of responding to trends surfaced by customers asking for new features. "Now, Mac developers can leverage the agility of PHP for Web app development when they use Zend Server, with the best PHP runtime, powerful monitoring, diagnostics and performance optimization." "We've seen this demand for Mac support from the Zend PHP developer community, at the annual ZendCon event, on Zend Forums and among user groups worldwide," Gutmans told me in an e-mail. The creator and commercial maintainer of PHP announced the general availability of its Web app server, Zend Server 5.6, featuring new support for Macheads.Īccording the company's CEO and co-founder Andi Gutmans, Zend has been seeing an increased demand from "the community that develops on the Mac." ![]() If you were wondering whether Mac developers were also facing the pressure to become polyglot programmers so many industry watchers mentioned in their 2012 predictions (like this one and this one), consider the recent announcement from Zend Technologies. PHP Devs Want Mac Support Zend Gives It to Them ![]()
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