Zend Technologies

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Zend Technologies Ltd. is a world wide web infrastructure software company with headquarters in Ramat Gan, Israel and has offices in Japan, Germany and the United States.

Zend is best known for its founders Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski who, along with other Israeli graduates of the Technion and Rasmus Lerdorf, have created PHP. The company's operations are currently centered on the development of products relating to the development, deployment and management of business critical PHP based web applications, including Zend Studio.

The name "Zend" is a portmanteau of the names of its founders, Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans.

In 1997, Zeev and Andi rewrote the parser behind Rasmus Lerdorf's PHP-FI. The result was released as PHP 3.

In 1998 they redesigned that parser completely, and named it the Zend Engine. PHP 4 was based upon the first version of the Zend Engine, and saw a fair amount of success.

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