IBM's participation in the open-source PHP community will help make development more professional, said Anne Thomas Manes, an analyst at the Burton Group.

Zend Technologies releases updated open source framework with support from Microsoft, IBM, Google and others.

Analysis: The division between proprietary software vendors and open-source providers is not as clear as some industry players perceive.

Demand for Python, Ruby on Rails and PHP development skills far exceeds the number of people available with skills,” says Michael Kirven, co-founder and principal of IT resourcing firm Bluewolf.

Nearly 40% of teams using open source lack the internal skills to test, use, or integrate that software.

Some fairly large Internet services are pressing into production Facebook’s open-source PHP runtime engine after being impressed with the performance metrics for the alternative to the ...

Microsoft announced Tuesday a close technical collaboration with Zend, the programming language vendor that currently dominates Web-based scripting with the open source PHP language. Microsoft and ...

Attackers were able to place malicious code in the PHP central code repository by impersonating key developers, forcing changes to the PHP Group's infrastructure.

Systems architects for the portal giant plot to put their proprietary scripting language out to pasture with the adoption of an open-source alternative.

IBM is putting its corporate heft behind a popular open-source Web development technology called PHP, in a move meant to reach out to a broader set of developers. On Friday, the tech giant ...