Oracle and Zend Technologies have announced that Zend Core for Oracle for IBM AIX, Linux, and Sun Solaris, and the beta version of Zend Core for Oracle for the Windows platform are now available.
Zend Core for Oracle accelerates the building and deployment of mission-critical, PHP-based Web applications. Zend Core for Oracle also offers an updated PHP "OCI8" driver to connect with the Oracle Database, providing enhanced reliability, stability, and performance for Oracle Database-driven Web applications. Oracle offers free downloads of the products from
http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/php/index.html. Zend Core for Oracle is also available at
http://www.zend.com/core/oracle.