Zend and IBM have partnered to deliver Zend Server for IBM i (formerly known as AS400 or iSeries or System i5), a high quality enterprise-ready PHP runtime solution that provides IBM i businesses with a production quality solution for deployment and management of modern Web applications. For businesses who rely on IBM i, Zend Server for IBM i is the most productive and cost-effective solution to rapid Web enablement and the integration of Web Services supporting SOA.


From modernizing legacy applications and leveraging business logic in your databases to creating PHP web-based applications on IBM i, Zend Solutions for IBM i are designed to help you leverage the power of the IBM i platform to develop, deploy and manage web applications to better connect with your customers, vendors, partners and employees at a significantly lower cost and greater efficiency. 


IBM i application modernization

If you have business-critical applications running on IBM i, how can you take advantage of PHP to modernize those applications while ensuring that they're fast, secure and reliable? How do you integrate data coming from RPG or from DB2?


Zend Server for IBM i provides architecture optimized for IBM i, a PHP toolkit, a bridge to integrate 5250 devices, DB2 connectivity, and more to make it easy to build and run PHP applications on IBM i while leveraging existing code.


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The community edition (CE) of Zend Server for IBM i is a PHP runtime environment that comes embedded in IBM i. One free year of Zend Silver Support is included with Zend Server CE for IBM i thanks to the partnership between Zend and IBM. Zend Server CE for IBM i does not include application monitoring, diagnostics or page caching.