Zend and IBM have partnered to deliver Zend Core for IBM, a Web application solution that combines the production quality PHP solution of Zend Core with support for IBM’s powerful DB2 family, the Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) and a bundled copy of the DB2 Express-C database. The combined solution provides a certified production environment based on best practices in configuring and tuning PHP leveraging the knowledge and experience of Zend and IBM. This provides a proven high performance and supportability for today and your next generation applications.

Single Source Support

Customers seeking support for demanding mission critical applications can purchase Zend support subscriptions for a PHP stack combined with DB2 Express-C data servers. All services are delivered by Zend and backed by the global technical resources of IBM. This entitles customers to the same service level provided to all Zend Core support services and to the full capabilities of the full DB2 support, FixPaks and upgrade protection.

For information on purchasing a combined Zend Core DB2 Express-C support subscription contact sales@zend.com.

Extended Capabilities

A support subscription entitles you to use SQL Replication which provides full read/write synchronizations of data between several servers. If you license two servers, you can deploy them in a high availability configuration using High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR) feature. Simply purchase Zend Core subscription for both servers at a price which is very competitive with other database servers and get both you PHP and DB support from one source.

• SQL Replication
• DB2 High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR)
  
  • High Availability flash demo
  • High Availability White Paper (PDF, 345KB)

Modern Applications Depend on XML

Modern Web applications depend on XML to deliver high value solutions for data interchange, web services, SOA, ATOM, RSS feeds and other functionality. DB2-Express–C streamlines processing and handling XML content with a high performance native storage engine for both XML and relational data. DB2's pureXML support and SOA enabled capabilities leverages XML to the fullest and provide additional developer technologies such as SQL/XML and XQuery. This means developers are more productive and projects that get delivered sooner!

IBM Resources for Zend Core

IBM Articles referencing Zend Core

• Ajax with Zend Core for IBM
• Sample Ajax with Zend Core for IBM
• Performance Paper

The following Redbooks have PHP reference - both reference Zend Core for IBM Developing PHP Applications for IBM Data Servers:

• Developing PHP Applications for IBM Data Servers
• DB2 Express-C: The Developer Handbook for XML, PHP, C/C++, Java, and .NET

Webcasts

• Rich Internet Applications powered by Zend Core for IBM on Windows Vista