Zend Technologies Ltd. is a world wide web infrastructure software company with headquarters in Cupertino, California, U.S. and has offices in Israel, France, Italy and Germany. Zend Japan, currently owned by Turbolinux, is an agency of Zend Technologies in Japan.

The company's logo

Zend is best known for its founders Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski who, along with other Israeli graduates of the Technion, extended PHP after its creation by Rasmus Lerdorf. The company's operations are currently centered on the development of products relating to the development, deployment and management of business critical PHP based web applications, including Zend Studio. In 1997, Zeev and Andi rewrote the parser behind Rasmus Lerdorf's PHP-FI. The result was released as PHP 3. In 1998 they redesigned that parser completely, and named it the Zend Engine. PHP 4 was based on the first version of the Zend Engine and was extremely successful.

The name "Zend" is a portmanteau of the names of its founders, Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans.

Zend Certification Test

Zend also provides a PHP Certification Test and certifies people succeeding on the exam as Zend Certified Engineers (ZCE). To help Zend Certified Engineers gain employment, Zend lists all the persons who have passed the Zend PHP Certification Exam in its directory, Yellow Pages for PHP Professionals. Also, they allow ZCEs to place a ZCE logo on their personal web site/resume.

Products

Zend Platform

Zend Platform is a product that runs on a web server, monitoring PHP applications and reports on performance and possible problems. It also offers a PHP accelerator (often confused with the free Zend Optimizer), a content caching solution including an API for partial page caching, session clustering and numerous management tools. Zend Platform can be used in conjunction with Zend Studio to do remote debugging and profiling of PHP applications in their native server environment.

Zend Studio

Zend Studio is a commercial, proprietary integrated development environment (IDE) for PHP.

Sponsored Projects

Zend Framework

Zend Framework is an open-source, object-oriented web application framework written in PHP5 and licensed under the new BSD license.

Social events

They visited events worldwide and spread the OSS message over. In 2005, Zeev Suraski delivered a speech at the OSS Technical Seminar organized by Open standard Support Organization, Sunwah - PearL Linux and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council. His visit made a very good impression and encouraged the OSS community in Hong Kong.

List of world wide partners

• Brain Alliance, Finland
• Ausy, Luxembourg

External links

• Zend Technologies
• Zend Certification Home
• Yellow Pages for PHP Professionals
• Zend Japan
• Zeev Suraski spoke at OSS Technical Seminar in Hong Kong
• Zend partners
• Zend PHP 5 Certification Benefits
• Zend PHP 5 Certification Free Practice Test
• Zend PHP 5 Certification Blog
• Zend PHP 5 Certification FAQ