As part of Zend's work to boost applications, Zend plans to release to the PHP community 12 patches to improve performance. Gutmans also said that Phalanger, which is the Microsoft-endorsed implementation of PHP on the .Net framework, was not a component of Tuesday's announcement of better support for PHP on Windows. "It's great that people have choice but it's not the [broad-based] PHP," Gutmans said.
Also at the Zend conference, MySQL revealed that its MySQL database will be distributed with the Zend Core PHP implementation. Additionally, a native driver linking MySQL to PHP is being developed, with optimizations for improving performance. The driver is due in 2007.