In a step to attract more users to its server product line Microsoft forges ties with Zend, the company responsible for the engine used by open source solution PHP.

Although PHP has worked with Microsoft IIS for quite some time, the performance has been volatile. PHP runs on more than 22 million Web sites and is used inside 15,000 companies, and the numbers are increasing, despite the launch of Microsoft’s ASP.NET and the focus on ease of deployment. In the long run, however, deployment costs are marginal as compared to the total project cost, when factoring in elements such as, exactly, performance.

In addition to performance there are three important factors that influences the total cost of ownership. Those are Interoperability, Security and Reliability.
( Get the facts - The real ones ).Ease of deployment, if not properly handled contradicts several of such factors.

PHP is often part of what constitutes as LAMP, Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP ( although the abbreviation sometimes will oscillate between PHP and Perl, PHP is increasingly used).

One of PHP’s primary advantages is its cross-platform support, and increased performance also on Microsoft based web servers is a good thing for the framework.

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