PHP Life : The Oracle
Original post provide by Core PHP After a short break the PHP Life team are back. In this strip we look at the Zend/Oracle deal. If Oracle do buy-out Zend then let’s hope things fare better for the Zend staff than Oracle staff at the moment!
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PHP @ FrOSCon: Call For Papers
The Free and Open Source Conference (FrOSCon) 2008 is a two-day conference on free software and open source. It will take place on August, 23th and 24th 2008 in Sankt Augustin near Bonn, Germany.The PHP Usergroups Dortmund, Köln/Bonn and Hamburg are cooperatively organizing the PHP track as a sub-conference of the FrOSCon.
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Your participation will make this conference a success. Zend Technologies requests that you submit an abstract. The conference selection committee will consider all abstracts submitted on or before May 31, 2007. For more information about topics and submission guidelines please see http://www.zendcon.com/cfp.php.
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