Embarcadero tackles the cloud with tools for PHP and Windows

16.08.2010
Embarcadero Technologies will release later this month upgraded development tools for Windows and PHP as part of its RAD Studio XE suite.

With the suite, Embarcadero will make accommodations for deploying cloud applications and also expects to battle Zend Technologies in the PHP development space. Embarcadero will officially announce the suite on September 1.

Featured in the suite are new versions of Delphi, for building Windows applications using Object Pascal; Delphi Prism, for building .Net-based managed code applications; C++ Builder, for building C++ applications; and RadPHP XE, the successor to the company's Delphi for PHP development tool. Embarcadero acquired these products when it

All products in the suite now carry the XE designation, which loosely stands for cross-platform, heterogeneous database and Embarcadero, said Mike Rozlog, Embarcadero product manager for RAD Studio solutions.

Cloud capabilities in Delphi and C++ Builder enable development of applications that access the Microsoft Windows Azure cloud platform storage services. Developers also can deploy applications to the Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) platform.