Exciting news on the Windows Server front. Was that last sentence an example of an extreme oxymoron or what?

Want to run a Coppermine photo gallery on a Windows 2008 Server? In the past, that’s meant that the popular PHP application for photo galleries would run more poorly than on a Linux or Unix server, for which PHP had been optimized.

But the specialist in the PHP language, Zend Technologies, says that’s no longer the case. The Zend Core commercially supported form of PHP has been certified by Microsoft as ready to run “with performance and stability” on Windows Server 2008, said Andi Gutmans, co-founder and CTO of Zend. That means passing more than 100 compatibility tests, plus collaborating closely on certain Microsoft technologies.

For example, Zend worked with Microsoft’s FastCGI component for its Web server, IIS, to make FastCGI set up and run PHP applications efficiently. The IIS Web server is now built into Windows 2008, and the two companies made certain the PHP interface to FastCGI worked smoothly, Gutmans said in an interview.

This really is kewl news, for those that will be brave enough to upgrade their production servers to 2008 anyway. Me? Not yet. I really love seeing things in action, I wish I could see the Windows Server software running in a real environment, like I can see macs running at the Apple Store, or like I can see designs up front and in person at directbuy. How about it Microsoft? When are you going to open a Microsoft Store?

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