A few months ago I reported on Microsoft’s attempts to improve PHP’s performance on the Windows platform. A short time later, Zend and Microsoft announced a partnership intended to make this effort official.

The result of this collaboration is coming to fruition, as this week they released the second technical preview release of FastCGI.

Progress in this area is a pretty big deal, because countless PHP developers have historically built their web applications on Windows, only to move them over to Linux due to these longstanding performance and stability issues. Soon these developers will be able to continue using a standardized environment if they so choose.

Learn more about the FastCGI release

Learn how to install FastCGI/PHP

Read Zend’s press release regarding the collaboration

Jason

This morning I came across Andi Gutmans’ blog posting titled PHP 5 Adoption has Tipped! I found his post especially interesting as I just posted a week and a half ago about the continuance of PHP4 as the primarily installed version of PHP (PHP4, The Energizer Bunny?). At first I wondered if there were some new statistics released that I hadn’t seen, but that wasn’t the case.

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