ZendCon Session Notes - Keynote - Innovation That Matters: Making it Easy for Developers to Rapidly Deploy Usable & Actionable Information
Presented by Anant Jhingran and Mike Smith from IBM
Evolution of Enterprise Application Development
1970s: Applications were a hodgepodge of data and logic
1980s: Databases were developed, allowing data to be removed from the application
1990s: Web App + J2EE + Database
2000s: Web App + J2EE + Database and lots of buzzwords (Content, Search, Federation); Information as a Service
Information as a service: a number of heterogeneous applications and information sources
2004: PHP Web App + Database
2005: PHP Web App + Database + Buzzwords
2006: Information as a Service and Web 2.0
Wen 2.0 and "Info 2.0" - essentially the same thing as the separation of data and logic that occurred in the '80s.
Modern Web Data, Modern Web Applications
XML and its interaction with PHP
IBM's clients want to deal with XML, not as a separate system, but as an extension of their current applications.
Anant then talked about doing XML queries in DB2, and searching XML data with SimpleXML.
Ready for the Enterprise
Anant says that PHP and DB2 provides enterprise caliber functionality (via pureXML native XML store and PDO connectivity), scalability, reliability, security, and monitoring. Additionally, there are a number of tools that help, such as DB2 Developer Workbench, Zend Studiom Zend Core for IBM, integration with the Zend Framework, and DB2 Express-C.
(At this point, there was yet another snafu with the wireless mikes.)
Anant then showed some slides on the performance characteristics of PHP/Zend Core + DB2 using XML
On the "i platform"
Mike then took the stage to promote IBM System i. 98% of Fortune 100 and 85% of Fortune 500 companies are using System i.
(At which point, Mike's wireless mike also shut off.)
He then showed some customer testimonials praising System i's low maintenance costs (e.g. not needing to reboot since 1992 minimal use of IT staff to maintain System i servers, etc).
Mike mentioned that System i servers themselves scale from 1 CPU to 64 CPU racks. He then talked a little about logical partitioning, and how you can create virtual machines using as little as 1/100th of a server's CPU.
IBM is providing Zend Core and Zend Studio Professional for i5/OS for free.
The i5/OS version of Zend Core includes extensions to take advantage of special i5/OS features.
In the first three months of availability, there have been 4000 downloads of PHP for System i. More customer testimonials on using PHP to consolidate and integrate with other applications.
Evolution of Enterprise Application Development
1970s: Applications were a hodgepodge of data and logic
1980s: Databases were developed, allowing data to be removed from the application
1990s: Web App + J2EE + Database
2000s: Web App + J2EE + Database and lots of buzzwords (Content, Search, Federation); Information as a Service
Information as a service: a number of heterogeneous applications and information sources
2004: PHP Web App + Database
2005: PHP Web App + Database + Buzzwords
2006: Information as a Service and Web 2.0
Wen 2.0 and "Info 2.0" - essentially the same thing as the separation of data and logic that occurred in the '80s.
Modern Web Data, Modern Web Applications
XML and its interaction with PHP
IBM's clients want to deal with XML, not as a separate system, but as an extension of their current applications.
Anant then talked about doing XML queries in DB2, and searching XML data with SimpleXML.
Ready for the Enterprise
Anant says that PHP and DB2 provides enterprise caliber functionality (via pureXML native XML store and PDO connectivity), scalability, reliability, security, and monitoring. Additionally, there are a number of tools that help, such as DB2 Developer Workbench, Zend Studiom Zend Core for IBM, integration with the Zend Framework, and DB2 Express-C.
(At this point, there was yet another snafu with the wireless mikes.)
Anant then showed some slides on the performance characteristics of PHP/Zend Core + DB2 using XML
On the "i platform"
Mike then took the stage to promote IBM System i. 98% of Fortune 100 and 85% of Fortune 500 companies are using System i.
(At which point, Mike's wireless mike also shut off.)
He then showed some customer testimonials praising System i's low maintenance costs (e.g. not needing to reboot since 1992 minimal use of IT staff to maintain System i servers, etc).
Mike mentioned that System i servers themselves scale from 1 CPU to 64 CPU racks. He then talked a little about logical partitioning, and how you can create virtual machines using as little as 1/100th of a server's CPU.
IBM is providing Zend Core and Zend Studio Professional for i5/OS for free.
The i5/OS version of Zend Core includes extensions to take advantage of special i5/OS features.
In the first three months of availability, there have been 4000 downloads of PHP for System i. More customer testimonials on using PHP to consolidate and integrate with other applications.