Thursday, January 27. 2005

On January 24, Zend announced strategic investments by Intel and SAP and caused another Spartacus backlash from the PHP community because Zend has once again portrayed themselves as the "creators" of PHP -- an arguably misleading statement not giving credit to the many volunteers who have poured countless hours into the project.

Thanks to some complaining by influental PHP community members however, I'm pleased to announce that Zeev and Andi have intervened within the company and will from this point forward change the wording used in press releases to more accurately reflect the ongoing contributions to PHP by those in the general community. I get the warm fuzzies to see my employer willing to change their ways a little bit and give credit when credit is due! I'm told they'll also be changing the press release which caused the backlash on the web site soon as well.

With any luck, it's the last we'll see of Spartacus!