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Small Businesses Growing With PHP
New Small Business Program Delivers Full Spectrum of Professional Tools to
Provide Professional Advancement to Young Companies
Zend Technologies Ltd., the creator of the PHP scripting engine, and provider
of solutions to Develop, Protect and Scale enterprise PHP applications, announces
the availability of its new Small Business Program. The program is designed
to provide start-ups, small ISVs and web-shops with all the professional tools
that they need to grow their business. With a low onetime cost of $295, small
businesses now have access to all the professional tools and channels needed
to succeed.
The primary focus of the Small Business Program consists of a collection of
products that cover all PHP needs:
– Zend Encoder: Intellectual Property Protection for PHP, to secure the core
assets of any young company.
– Zend Studio: The most advanced development environment for PHP, for developing
PHP applications quickly and bug-free.
– Zend Performance Suite : Acceleration of PHP-enabled sites, to help web-presence
scale with increased traffic.
The entire cost of the program is a one-time fee of US$295, and is available
to any company or organization with gross revenues of less than US$250,000.
Studio licenses are perpetual. Encoder and Performance Suite licenses are valid
for as long as the company remains within the revenue criteria of the program.
In addition to the entire collection of Zend products, the program will also
provide marketing support, enabling the small companies with limited marketing
budget and reach to contact a much wider audience of potential customers.
“Our company has great opportunities ahead, and we look to Zend to help
us grow,” said Tobias Briel, of Bentob IT Media, a German provider of full-service
internet applications. “With Zend’s Small Business Program, we have the
tools we need at the price we need, which enables us to sell our products to
a completely new market.”
“Every day, I’m excited to see more and more companies that are building
their businesses with PHP at the core,” said Zeev Suraski, Co-Designer
of PHP, and Co-Founder and CTO of Zend Technologies. “Having grown a business
myself, I know how important it is to have access to professional strength tools.
I feel proud that our Small Business Program will make a difference for these
companies.”
Pricing and Availability
Zend’s Small Business Program is available immediately, with a lifetime
fee of $295. An optional upgrade and support package is available for $155 annually,
providing all product upgrades and unlimited customer support. Program registration
is available directly from Zend’s web site: www.zend.com.
