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 ...

Open-source contributions According to Hardman, Microsoft has contributed to technologies that are deemed open source. “PHP, a technology used to build web pages, ran into multiple issues around ...

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Open-source development can help reduce costs, according to Annunziata. “In my experience, there is a much higher ROI if your investment is part of a broad, open effort than if you try to build ...

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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 ...

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.