I was reading Stephen O’Grady’s blog and started link hopping. My jumping off point was  the announcement of IBM supporting MySQL. Then I trolled around where I found IBM’s growing support for PHP through Zend Core. I had read previously about WebSphere support for PHP.

I’ve confessed previously that I skipped the Java development tract in my career development. I went from C/C++ thru a bunch of “other stuff” and ended up in the world of script developers with PHP.

IBM’s announcements and support for broadly used technologies and interfaces is a good sign. It’s not all roses and champagne. I think IBM still needs to simplify the deployment side of the equation, ala XAMMP. Developers need low thresholds to entry.

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