Re: PHP without Zend

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Can you be more precise about what is wrong with Zend's offering?   
More importantly perhaps have you asked Zend about the issues raised?  
I am assuming here that you are talking about Zend Server (i.e. the  
current product) and not Zend Core.

"authentication" is a function of PHP itself and (as far as I know) is  
no more or less secure than any other language. There are also  
multiple authentication options including having Apache do it against  
IBM i user profiles. All of which is a way of saying that what they  
are saying appears to make no sense.

Since Zend are the major contributor to the PHP engine and Zend Server  
is a production hardened and secured version of the engine that  
everyone else uses, I can't see how any other version would be more  
secure.

Maybe Mike Pavlak can comment further.


Jon Paris

www.Partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com



On Oct 1, 2010, at 11:20 AM, midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Operations tells me that the way Zend handles authentication doesn't  
> conform to our corporate security policies.  As a result, we can't  
> install it on our system. I don't think this a battle I can win.