1) Maybe I misunderstood something, but I'd say it's a big difference whether "PHP runs Oracle", "PHP runs in Oracle" or "PHP runs with Oracle". As far as I can tell from the marketing stuff on Zend website the third is what their "Zend Core(tm) for Oracle(tm)" means. PHP bundled with libraries to connect to Oracle. Big deal indeed. DBI+DBD::Oracle anyone?

2) IBM support and Oracle support ... you're pointing to some Zend forums. Hows that supposed to be any better than what we have? Post your questions here or in the perl-dbi mailing list.

3) Certificate that everyone passes the first time is just a useless sheet of paper. The reason why they are confident you will pass it the first time is more likely the fact that it's so damn easy a monkey could pass it.

4) As far as big corporation support goes ... Microsoft used to support ActiveState (formerly ActiveWare, formerly Hip Communications) to port and support Perl for Windows.

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In reply to Re: Perl needs Zend by Jenda
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