# Quoted in InfoWorld


By Ben Ramsey

Published on January 20, 2007


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](http://www.infoworld.com/). 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](http://web.archive.org/web/20070117022132/http://www.zend.com/products/zend_core) (specifically with regard to Microsoft support), the [Zend-Microsoft partnership](http://web.archive.org/web/20070119094436/http://www.zend.com/company/zend_news/announcements/2006/10/microsoft_and_zend_technologies_announce_technical_collaboration_to_improve_interoperability_of_php_on_the_windows_server_platform), and the [new CEO](http://web.archive.org/web/20070118161336/http://www.zend.com/company/zend_news/announcements/2007/01/harold_goldberg_joins_zend_as_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](http://web.archive.org/web/20070714232144/http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/01/16/HNzendcore_1.html) 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](http://shiflett.org/blog/2003/nov/on-being-quoted).