IBM backs open-source Web software: IBM is putting its corporate heft behind a popular open-source Web development technology called PHP, in a move meant to reach out to a broader set of developers.

On Friday, the tech giant announced a partnership with Zend Technologies to create a bundle called Zend Core, which includes IBM's Cloudscape-embedded database and Zend's PHP development tools. Zend sells tools built on the open-source edition of PHP and offers related services.

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This is very good news. I use PHP extensively and am really digging the new features in PHP5. Hopefully this will lend some more credibility to running PHP at the enterprise level.