Oracle integrates PHP scripting engine (dubbed "Zend Core for Oracle") with its 10g database and application server for building apps based on the open source development language.

What remains to be seen is whether Oracle is shifting focus away from Java or just encompassing additional languages. So would .NET be the next?

Oracle is joining several other major vendors in announcing support for PHP. IBM in February said it was bundling a PHP scripting engine with its Cloudscape embeddable database system. The combination of Cloudscape and PHP was intended to make it easy to add database services to a Web application.

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