Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Mon Jun 28 11:35:50 CDT 2010
Even though the product is fully Open Source, Google, Microsoft, IBM and Adobe are partners in the product's design. The product is named Zend Framework; an open source, object-oriented web application framework. What the product will allow you to do is to connect and mange data from virtually any data source and across the web. Aside: It is written in PHP 5, and runs in conjunction with IIS or Apache. (And if you have not done so already you can easily installs with the latest version of PHP on your IIS server... Here is one link to the hundreds of help links for installing PHP: http://www.wikihow.com/Install-PHP-5-for-IIS-6) Zend Framework will support databases like MySQL, Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and Informix Dynamic Server, to name but a few data sources and supports flat database systems and memory files as well Add to that email systems, using all the standard protocols like Maildir, POP3 and IMAP4... It even supports basic Cloud data; check out the following: http://www.simplecloud.org/ Check it out: http://framework.zend.com/. There are instructing on how to set it up, where to get some IDEs to tweak the code etc. This could be the sole application all you web application developers will need to connect your pretty FE with any BE Database or databases... One stop shopping! Jim