Zend Server Public Beta

Zend has released a new PHP application server. Now Zend Core and Zend Platform are distributed together. From the product description:

• Fully supported and certified distribution of PHP 5.2
• Fully supported Zend Framework 1.7 release
• Integrated native installers (RPM/DEB/MSI)
• Web-based administration Interface
• Comprehensive out-of-the-box database connectivity
• Powerful PHP monitoring capabilities to identify problems and help fix them quickly
• URL-based output caching required by today's modern web applications
• Zend Optimizer+ - byte code cache to boost application performance
• New "Guard Loader" to enable processing of Zend Guard encoded files