Zend Framework hits 1.0 milestone
Zend uses the OSI-approved New BSD license.
Zend Technologies gave credit to 230 community developers, including Google and IBM, releasing the framework for Web 2.0 application development less than two years after it was first announced.
If you want to see Zend in action their "featured application" is IBM's QEDWiki, "a browser-based assembly canvas used to create simple mash-ups."
Contributors submitted their code under an Apache-style contributor license agreement (CLA), which means you can call off the lawyers. (Or just give them tomorrow off.)
Zend also has a “use-at-will” architecture, meaning you can use as few of its functions as you need, and you're not locked-in.
Initial blog reaction is warm, albeit sparse. Andrew Skinner notes early adopters say there's great stability in the code base. Nick Halstead has been using it for four months and is happy with it.
Zenders (as Maugrim the Reaper calls Zend users) will be pleased, but don't you wish good news stories like this got a bit more buzz?
I do.