Zend is the PHP Company.
Zend Technologies is a provider of products and services for developing, deploying and managing business-critical PHP applications.
Its mission is to enable PHP as a world-class language for large-scale enterprise development solutions.
Deployed at more than 20,000 customers worldwide, Zend’s product suite provides a comprehensive platform for supporting the entire PHP application lifecycle.
Its four major products are
Zend Platform, which is a PHP application server that supports the performance, management, integration and scalability requirements of organizations using PHP for business-critical applications.
Zend Studio, which provides the components needed to support the development lifecycle in the PHP IDE.
Zend Studio speeds development, simplifies complex projects and is fully integrated with Zend Core and Zend Platform for easy deployment and debugging.
Zend Core, which is a PHP distribution that includes the most up-to-date version of PHP, verified extensions, database drivers, Zend Framework (the leading open-source PHP framework), along with bundled web servers and databases.
Zend Guard, which provides software vendors with encoding, obfuscation and licensing technology that delivers safe distribution, management of unauthorized access to software, and protection of their source code.
