written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . april 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message zend technologies ltd. type privately held company industry software founded 1999 founder andi gutmans zeev suraski headquarters cupertino california united states key people andi gutmans ceo zeev suraski cto stu schmidt president curt disibio cfo products zend server zend studio zend framework zend engine services php consulting php training owner rogue wave software website www.zend.com zend technologies ltd. is a world wide web infrastructure software company with headquarters in cupertino california u.s. a technology center in ramat gan tel aviv israel and offices in france italy and germany . the company s operations are currently centered on the development of products relating to the development deployment and management of php based web applications including zend studio . contents 1 history 2 products 2.1 zend server 2.2 zend server community edition 2.3 zend platform 2.4 zend studio 2.5 zend guard 2.6 zend certification test 3 sponsored projects 3.1 zend engine 3.2 zend framework 3.3 simple cloud api 3.4 apigility 3.5 social events 4 references 5 external links history edit zend technologies was founded by andi gutmans and zeev suraski who along with other israeli graduates of the technion further developed php after its initial creation by rasmus lerdorf . the name zend is a combination of suraski s and gutmans forenames zeev and andi . in 1997 gutmans and suraski rewrote the parser of php fi originally written by lerdorf resulting in php 3 . in 1998 they redesigned that parser completely and named it the zend engine . php 4 is based on the first version of the zend engine . in 1999 their company zend technologies was formally established and received initial funding from the israeli venture capital funds platinum neurone ventures and walden israel . doron gerstel an experienced business executive was recruited to head the company as ceo . 1 in 2000 jim jagielski was hired as the cto of us operations . 2 in july 2004 zend technologies raised 8m in a series c funding and established its headquarters in the usa . 3 in january 2005 intel capital and sap ventures joined the existing investors in zend technologies . 4 in june 2006 zend technologies received the best startup software company award at the israeli venture association annual hi tech conference in tel aviv . the award was presented by israeli prime minister ehud olmert . 5 6 in august 2006 zend raised 20 million in a series d funding . 7 in february 2009 zend s co founder andi gutmans was appointed as chief executive officer after previously serving as the company s vp of research and development . zend also recruited mark burton who previously served as evp of worldwide sales at mysql as executive chairman . 8 in october 2015 rogue wave software acquired zend . 9 products edit zend server edit zend server is a web application server for running and managing php applications . zend server comes with built in application monitoring application problem diagnostics caching and optimization capabilities and a web based administrator console . zend server s installers are native to the os rpm deb msi and include a tested php distribution zend framework out of the box connectivity to all common databases java connectivity and a scalable and php integrated download server for linux only . zend server community edition edit the community edition of zend server was a free complete php stack that were advertised by the company as suited for developing php applications or running non critical applications in production . zend server community edition supported linux windows iseries i5 os and mac os x and was periodically updated by zend . starting with zend server 7.0 the free edition was discontinued and is now only available as a paid upgrade . zend platform edit zend platform is a product that runs on a web server monitoring php applications and reporting on performance and possible problems . it also offers a php accelerator often confused with the free zend optimizer a content caching solution including an api for partial page caching session clustering and numerous management tools . zend platform can be used in conjunction with zend studio to do remote debugging and profiling of php applications in their native server environment . zend studio edit zend studio is a commercial proprietary integrated development environment ide for php . zend guard edit zend guard is a product that can prevent peeping into php scripts . zend certification test edit zend also provides a php certification 10 test and certifies people succeeding on the exam as zend certified php engineers zce . this is not to be confused with the zend framework certification . it is intended to prove that a person is fully qualified to develop php web applications . 11 12 there are over 10 000 zend certified engineers in the world with either php 4 or php 5 or php 5.3 certifications . 13 to help zend certified engineers gain employment zend lists all the persons who have passed the zend php certification exam in its directory yellow pages for php professionals . also they allow zces to place a zce logo on their personal web site resume . as php is mainly used as a web development language the zce tests the candidate over a variety of skills necessary for developing web applications . the php 5 certification exam covers 14 15 php basics functions arrays object oriented programming security including cross site scripting xss and sql injection xml and web services including simplexml xpath soap and rest strings and patterns including pcre databases and sql and pdo web features such as sessions forms get and post data cookies and http headers streams and network programming design and theory php.ini settings although these are the study guide contents there are more topics to consider in order to be prepared for the exam such as use of the new extension php data object pdo layer to access databases and the standard php library spl a new set of classes specially created to manipulate objects as sets of arrays or files . zend considers the required score to pass the test confidential as well as the questions themselves . they will inform failing candidates only about the topics that made them fail . it is known that candidates must pass every topic to pass the test as whole and it is believed that the required score per topic might be about 75 85 % . original research citation needed sponsored projects edit zend engine edit zend engine is the heart of php originally written by andi gutmans and zeev suraski . the first version of zend engine was shipped with php4 . zend sponsors some developers to actively contribute to the engine while the main development of zend engine today comes from contributors to the php project . zend framework edit zend framework is an open source object oriented web application framework written in php5 and licensed under the new bsd license . simple cloud api edit the simple cloud api is an open source php api for accessing services from multiple cloud vendors with configuration changes alone . this project is the first project zend has launched to facilitate php development for the cloud . apigility edit apigility is an api builder designed to simplify the creation and maintenance of apis social events edit zend technologies visits events worldwide to spread the oss message . in 2005 zeev suraski delivered a speech at the oss technical seminar organized by the open standard support organization sunwah pearl linux and the hong kong trade development council . references edit dynamic internet developer zend raising 6m . globes . 30 december 2002 . retrieved 4 april 2015 . zend technologies extends u.s. presence ; open source advocate jim jagielski joins php technology leader . retrieved 7 may 2015 . php leader enters u.s. market ; zend technologies raises 8m series c funding establishes u.s. headquarters . businesswire . july 19 2004 . retrieved april 9 2015 . zend technologies announces strategic investments by intel and sap ventures . businesswire . january 24 2005 . zend takes home award for best israeli startup company . 2006 . retrieved 2009 01 04 . vcs name hot israeli startups . 2006 . retrieved 2009 01 04 . zend technologies receives 20 million in series d funding . linuxlinks.com . august 28 2006 . zend technologies co founder andi gutmans named chief executive officer . businesswire . february 3 2009 . retrieved april 9 2015 . rogue wave software acquires enterprise php leader zend . zend.com . retrieved 2015 10 06 . zend php certification information . zend technologies . retrieved 23 december 2014 . marinaccio brent an in depth look at the zend certified engineer zce certification linuxworld magazine july 28 2005 martinez anne zend releases certification for php5 certification watch volume 9 9 july 26 2006 zend technologies september 4 2013 . zend announces 10 000th zend certified engineer press release . retrieved 2013 10 05 . zend php 5 certification zend technologies zend technologies announces php 5 certification business wire september 12 2006 external links edit zend technologies retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title zend technologies & oldid 739392317 categories phpphp softwaresoftware companies of israelsoftware companies of the united statescompanies based in ramat ganhidden categories articles with a promotional tone from april 2015all articles with a promotional toneall articles that may contain original researcharticles that may contain original research from october 2014all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from october 2014 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces 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