The Technology Refresh was an announcement of capabilities that are both available (for the core OS) or will be available in the future (Zend Server and maybe other stuff I'm not 100% sure). In this case the Zend Server release in not part of anything that can be downloaded at this time.

There is an APC compatibility layer for the Zend Data Cache that you can turn on. It should handle what you are need in most cases. BTW if you have 100 Server running in production in a single pool you might want to look at some of the other multi-server capabilities Zend Server can bring to the tab...

Zend Server for IBM i is NOT available ANYWHERE at this time. We have not released it yet so please be careful of anyone claiming to have ZS6. It will be released in April ... stay tuned for details.

You don't need APC at al. Zend Server comes with Optimizer+ which provides the same functionality as APC.

YOu are right there has been quite a bit of "hype" about ARM based server hardware. For Zend, the decision to support a new hardware architecture (or OS or Web Server) is based on the market. Right now there is not a lot of ARM based server technology out there but I suspect we'll start to see more ...

We don't build a thread safe version of the PHP debugger. We do have a debugger built into the Zend Server 6 beta. So if you want to get a complete stack you can download a trail of Zend Server and try it out.

Kent

You need to use Guard Loader for 5.3 and the files must be encoded specifically for 5.3.

At this point I think we've gotten enough performance out of this both for inbound and outbound large data cases. In the cases where the operation happen asynchronously the time is not really an issue since it's just updating a cache (you might want to look at the Zend Server Job Queue capabilities ...

you posted in the wrong forum for a zend framework question .... and to make matters worse you posted in an end-of-life product forums so ... I moved it for you.

The usual causes are that you did not create a "php project" but a vanilla project so it does not know what language you are using or ... you opened a PHP file without a project (perhaps by just double clicking on a file in the finder/explorer).