PHP Overtakes Microsoft's ASP as Web's #1 Server-side Scripting Language Enterprises Embrace Open-Source Technology for Dynamic Web Sites As Major Business Benefits Drive PHP's Explosive Growth Ramat Gan, Israel, June 4, 2002 - Zend Technologies Ltd., the creators of PHP 4, and the Zend Engine, on which all PHP sites are run, today announced that as of April 2002, PHP, the open-source software phenomenon, has surpassed Microsoft's ASP as the most popular server-side Web scripting technology on the Internet.
According to a Netcraft survey published in April 2002, PHP is now being used by over 24% of the sites on the Internet. Of the 37.6 million web sites reported worldwide (http://www.netcraft.com/Survey/index-200204.html), PHP is running on over 9 million sites and continues to grow at an explosive rate. Over the past two years PHP has averaged a 6.5% monthly growth rate.
PHP, a recursive acronym for "Hypertext Preprocessor", is an open-source server-side scripting language designed for creating robust and reliable dynamic Web pages for e-commerce and other mission critical Web applications. Inherent Advantages PHP's early growth can be attributed to its open-source roots as a free Web scripting technology that came bundled with the popular LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) open-source quartet. Its new rapidly growing enterprise adoption for vital Web applications is now a direct result of PHP's three key advantages over competing technologies:
1. Designed for the Web - PHP has built-in features to handle heavily trafficked sites and to simplify common Web programming tasks.
2. Ease of Use - Companies gain enhanced productivity of development teams and significantly reduced time-to-market of mission critical web applications.
3. Open Source - Collaborative development leads to rapid technology advancement, superior code quality, a massive library of prewritten code, and comprehensive developer support and documentation.
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