The rumors of PEAR’s demise are greatly exaggerated

December 1st, 2005

Tobias Schlitt has a lengthy comparison of the new ezComponents and PEAR. He goes to great lengths to show that ezComponents and PEAR do not compete.
I’ve also seen some ill informed speculation that Zend PHP Framework will kill off PEAR. Um, not gonna happen. PEAR is a library, not a framework. [...]

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PHP Framework Consolidation?

November 27th, 2005

There is recent interest in consolidating Java frameworks with similar approaches. WebWork is joining Struts, which surprised me. Along the same lines, the Java Web Alignment group brings together many big players in the Java framework space:

The Java web framework landscape has become quite fragmented; the purpose of this group is to explore [...]

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Crazy Zend PHP Framework Rumors

October 17th, 2005

Computerworld has more information on Zend PHP Framework:

“PHP as a language isn’t isolated and people are going to be building SOA types of applications using XML and SOAP,” said Rod Smith, vice president of emerging technology at IBM.
“So the idea is to have an Eclipse plug-in here to leverage content [and] leverage the assets that [...]

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