Zend Framework Reaches New Milestone: 5 Million Downloads

With now over 5 millions downloads under its belt (2.5 million of those in the past six months alone!) the Zend Framework open-source project has shown phenomenal growth. This means a much larger and more vibrant community of developers to hire from, to pore over and vet ZF code contributions, and, in general, to raiseContinue reading “Zend Framework Reaches New Milestone: 5 Million Downloads”

Linux ready for real-time computing in financial services

Is Linux capable of handling the mission-critical, high-volume demands of the world’s biggest financial institutions? Speakers at the recent sixth annual Linux on Wall Street conference offered solid evidence in the affirmative, despite unresolved issues concerning real-time Linux and hypervisor interoperability. Vinod Kutty, the distributed computing R&D head at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), nowContinue reading “Linux ready for real-time computing in financial services”