Zend Technologies

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Zend Technologies Inc.

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founding 1999
Seat Cupertino , United States

Ramat Gan , Israel

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  • Ido Ben Moshe, Vice President, Global Support & Professional Services
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Website www.zend.com

Zend Technologies is a software company with headquarters in Cupertino , USA , technology centers in Ramat Gan , Tel Aviv , Israel and offices in Germany , France , Ireland and Italy . The company's focus is on products and services in the area of ​​development, deployment and management of PHP -based web applications. These include Zend Server , Zend Guard and the cross-platform development environment Zend Studio . In the past, this included Zend Platform and Zend Core , which are still used in a variety of ways today.

history

Zend Technologies Inc. was founded by software developers Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski in Israel as Zend Technologies Ltd. founded, which, along with other graduates of the Technion , the free and open source - scripting language PHP for its development by Rasmus Lerdorf further developed.

In 1997, Gutmans and Suraski rewrote the PHP-FI parser created by Lerdorf, resulting in PHP 3. In 1998 they completely reworked this parser and renamed it Zend Engine . The acronym "Zend" is derived from the first names Ze ev and A nd i. Gutmans and Suraski are also primarily responsible for the development of PHP 5 and the Zend Engine in version 2, the core of PHP. PHP 4 is based on the first version of the Zend Engine.

In 1999 they officially founded their company, Zend Technologies, in Tel Aviv , Israel , supported by start-up funding from the Israeli venture capitalists Platinum Neurone Ventures and Walden Israel. Doron Gerstel became the company's CEO .

In 2004, Zend Technologies raised $ 8 million in Series C funding and established a US headquarters . In January 2005, Intel Capital and SAP Ventures joined as investors in Zend Technologies.

In 2005 the subsidiary Zend Technologies GmbH was founded in Munich .

In June 2006, Zend Technologies received the Best Startup Software Company Award from the Israeli Venture Association Annual Hi Tech Conference in Tel Aviv. In August 2006, Zend Technologies raised $ 20 million in Series D funding.

In February 2009, Zend's co-founder Andi Gutmans was named Chief Executive Officer , having previously served as VP of Research and Development. Zend also recruited Mark Burton, who previously served as EVP Worldwide Sales and Alliances at MySQL , to serve as its chairman.

In October 2015, Zend Technologies was acquired by Rogue Wave Software .

Shortly afterwards, in February 2016, co-founder Andi Gutmans left the company.

Products

Zend server

Zend Server , currently version 9, is a complete web application server for software distribution , execution and administration of PHP applications on Linux , Windows or IBM i . It provides application monitoring , code - Tracing and Task Queue .

Zend Studio

Zend Studio , currently version 13, is a development environment (IDE) for the PHP scripting language. It is for Linux , Windows and Mac OS X are available. The Eclipse integration makes it possible to combine different web languages ​​(e.g. JavaScript ) in a development environment with PHP and to use all plugins that have been created as part of the Eclipse project. At the same time, Zend offers a version without Eclipse (which, however, is the obsolete model of Zend Studio) to enable the gradual migration.

In addition to a dynamic code extension, documentation generation ( PHPDoc ), optional connection to the version management systems Git , Subversion and CVS as well as FTP and MySQL integration, the Zend Studio u. a. also a built-in debugger that PHP itself lacks. In the Windows version, script outputs can be viewed using an Internet Explorer window embedded in the application without an additional browser . Together with the Zend Studio Server and an Apache server, programs can also be debugged directly on the web server .

There is also a “code analyzer” that searches for typical sources of error in the source code , such as accidental variable assignments in conditions (example: if ($variable = 1)instead of if ($variable == 1)). There is also profiling support, which makes it easier to detect bottlenecks in the code.

Zend Studio is primarily characterized by its support for cloud services.

Zend Guard

Zend Guard is an obfuscator for PHP applications that obfuscates the source code three times (variables are renamed, comments deleted). The current version 6 was released on May 14, 2013.

Zend Guard Loader

Zend Guard Loader is a free runtime environment that enables PHP to run scripts that have been encrypted with Zend Guard. Anyone who wants to run encrypted applications can use them free of charge.

Zend Optimizer

Zend Optimizer is a runtime environment that for running with Zend Guard protected PHP files is required. It is available free of charge and is preinstalled with most web hosting providers.

Zend Optimizer +

As of PHP version 5.5, the PHP accelerator Zend Optimizer + is an integrated part of PHP.

Sponsored projects

Zend Engine

Zend Engine is the heart of PHP and was originally written by Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski. The first version of the Zend Engine was shipped with PHP4. Zend sponsors some developers to actively contribute to the engine, while the main development of the Zend engine today comes from contributors to the PHP project.

Zend Framework

Zend Framework is an object-oriented free web application framework written in PHP 5 and under the BSD license .

Apigility

Apigility is an API builder designed to make it easier to create and maintain APIs .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dynamic Internet developer Zend raising $ 6m. In: Globes. December 30, 2002, accessed July 15, 2012 .
  2. ↑ PHP Leader Enters US Market; Zend Technologies Raises $ 8M Series C Funding, Establishes US Headquarters . BusinessWire. July 19, 2004. Retrieved July 15, 2012.
  3. ^ Zend Technologies Announces Strategic Investments by Intel and SAP Ventures . In: BusinessWire , January 24, 2005. Retrieved July 15, 2012. 
  4. ↑ Zend gets money from Intel and SAP . In: Computerwoche , January 24, 2005. Retrieved July 15, 2012. 
  5. ^ Zend Takes Home Award for Best Israeli Startup Company . 2006. Retrieved January 4, 2009.
  6. ↑ VC's name Hot Israeli Startups
  7. ↑ Zend: Best Israeli Software Startup ( Memento from July 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Zend Technologies receives $ 20 million in Series D Funding . In: LinuxLinks.com , August 28, 2006. Retrieved July 15, 2012. 
  9. ^ Zend Technologies Co-Founder Andi Gutmans Named Chief Executive Officer ( Memento March 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Indexventures.com on February 3, 2009
  10. ↑ http://www.zend.com/en/resources/news-and-events/newsroom/press/3683_rogue-wave-software-acquires-enterprise-php-leader-zend-acquisition-broadens-enterprise-strength-across -top-five-development-languages
  11. ^ Andi Gutmans: Starting a new journey ... In: Enterprise Software over Coffee (Andi Gutmans personal blog). February 24, 2016, accessed July 8, 2018 .
  12. ↑ http://events.ccc.de/congress/2008/Fahrplan/events/2678.en.html
  13. ↑ http://devzone.zend.com/3157/announcing-zend-guard-6-0/
  14. ↑ http://www.golem.de/news/opcode-cache-zend-optimizer-wird-in-php-5-5-integriert-1303-98069.html