Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP company, announced the availability of version 1.0 of Zend Framework, an open source application framework for PHP. First announced at the annual Zend Conference in October 2005 and pre-released in April 2006, Zend Framework has attracted contributions from 230 active contributors, both individual developers and company-sponsored committers, including from Google, IBM and Zend Technologies. Pre-release versions of Zend Framework have been downloaded more than one million times. It can be downloaded today from http://framework.zend.com.