Posted by R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah on 03/08/06 13:48

NC wrote:
> R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah wrote:
> >
> > The Zend framework preview release is out
> > <http://framework.zend.com/> and I don't know why such
> > PEAR like (yet another) framework is needed.
>
> There are two reaons I can think of:
>
> 1. To make a clean break with PHP 4, and
> 2. To get rid of multiple library dependencies.
>
> It's also possible that their framework could eventually morph into an
> addition to the commercial Zend Platform...
<snip>

Yup, that might be the reason. But, as far I have seen it's still
looks like a library much similar to PEAR and I guess, it would kill
PEAR.

FWIW, companies migrating to PHP will have more headache now:
whether to adopt framework and if which one.

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