Microsoft seems to be on a partnership spree with open source technologies of late. I know this is old news, I just got around to reading the news after a few hectic weeks. Zend has partnered with Microsoft to get PHP deployed in MS platforms reliably. In non-PHP news Novell has also partnered together on development of technologies and promote each other’s products.

“Zend aims to make it very easy to deploy reliable and high performance PHP 5 across all leading computing platforms, and improving integration with MySQL and Windows was high on our list of priorities,” said Mark de Visser, Zend’s chief marketing officer. “Starting in the first quarter of 2007, we intend to use the improved PHP technologies in our Zend Core product line, Zend’s certified PHP distribution.”

Link: Zend Technologies Announces Major Product Updates and New Industry Collaborations

The companies said they will collaborate on development of specific technologies, for example to help Microsoft’s Windows work with Novell’s Suse Linux, which is based on open source code. On the business side, they will promote each other’s products. 

Link: Microsoft, Novell join hands for OS harmony - silicon.com