PHP, Perl and Python on the wane? | The Register: "Gerin added that if PHP was losing support then Zend's business would have fallen by at least 20 per cent in line with EDC's figures. 'That hasn't happened. Quite the contrary,' Gerin said.

EDC blamed the drop on a failure for PHP, along with Perl and Python, to penetrate the enterprise space. An EDC spokesman predicted that the decline could be halted and reversed with this year's work between Zend and its new backers.

'This appears to be a long-term shift - there's a pretty steady growth in developers who don't intend to use it [PHP]. We may see this trend start to reverse itself in six months with SAP, Oracle and IBM pushing on it,' the spokesman said.®
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