PHP goes mainstream
Very pop, eh? Granted that one of the leading software giants, Microsoft is anti-open source in principle and endorses .NET Framework, PHP is actually kicking language programming ass!
According to the Tiobe Community Programming Index, PHP has steadily moved from fifth to fourth in terms of skills availability over the past year. It has (sneakily?) surpassed C++ and it will soon overtake Visual Basic. Wow!
Anyway, the recently IBM-partnered Zend Technologies is putting up enterprise-strength PHP on its iSeries platform. It has even cajoled Microsoft to grudgingly accept PHP as a foe. They’re positive that in the near future, PP will catch up on Apache, as it is on IIS and Windows.
Source: Computer Weekly