Andi Gutmans
Andi Gutmans
Andi Gutmansis an Israeli programmer and entrepreneur. He helped co-create PHP and co-founded Zend Technologies and is a General Manager of NoSQL at Amazon Web Services. A graduate of the Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Gutmans and fellow student Zeev Suraski created PHP 3 in 1997. In 1999 they wrote the Zend Engine, the core of PHP 4, and founded Zend Technologies, which has since overseen PHP advances, including the PHP 5 and most recent PHP...
almost citizen class goal happy
I'm very happy with where PHP is now. My goal is to really make PHP a first class citizen and I think we're almost there.
bring community create ecosystem larger level players solutions
We have to bring other players into the PHP ecosystem to bring their solutions into the PHP world to really create a larger community to bring us to the same level as a .NET.
build clear cool four includes seen useful work
There is a lot of work still to do, but after having already seen four applications build with the framework, it is clear that it already includes some very cool and useful modules.
adopted developed focused general language main meant purpose reason success unlike web work
I think the main reason for our success is that PHP has always been focused on Web development and it has always been developed by Web developers. Unlike other languages, which are general purpose language and then adopted to work on the Web, PHP is only meant for the Web.