Quoted in InfoWorld by Ben Ramsey

Last week, I received a rather cryptic e-mail with the following subject line: “Are you available today to talk about PHP?” The body was even more cryptic: “If so, please provide a phone number. Thanks.” Normally, I would’ve tossed such a message aside, assuming that it’s either spam or someone in Nigeria wanting me to build a PHP application for them after I give them my bank account and routing numbers so they can deposit the funds necessary to complete the work, but I noticed that this message was sent by an Editor at Large from InfoWorld. So, I decided to give it a shot and send my number back to him.

Shortly thereafter I received a phone call from Paul Krill, who was writing a piece about Zend Core 2.0 (specifically with regard to Microsoft support), the Zend-Microsoft partnership, and the new CEO of Zend. Apparently, Zend was announcing their new CEO and releasing a beta of Zend Core 2.0 on the 16th (which they did). Strangely enough, I find it odd that the PHP community remained virtually quiet (literally) on these issues this week.

Nevertheless, InfoWorld ran Paul’s news story on the 16th, and I was quoted in it. I think this is the first time I’ve ever been quoted outside publications in the PHP world. Luckily for me, I was not misquoted.

2 Comments

Stuart Herbert January 20, 2007 at 18:38

Hi Ben,

I'm not sure what you'd expect to see the community say about either the new Zend CEO or Zend Core 2.0's beta release.

Is there anything you find interesting about either event?

Best regards,
Stu

Ben Ramsey January 20, 2007 at 19:08

Nothing particularly interesting, but I would've expected at least a small mention about it in the blogosphere. As it is, it went by relatively unnoticed.