The PHP development team has released PHP 5.2.11, providing over 75 bugfixes and several improvements. Some of the fixes are security related. Even though PHP 5.3.0 has also been released, you probably won't be seeing it on the majority of web hosts until 2010. Many are reluctant to deploy a .0 release and prefer to wait for a .1. or later, release.

The PHP development team has announced the final release version of 5.3.0, which includes a number of bug fixes and improvements to the 5.x series. As web hosts upgrade their platforms, this will impact the performance of content managment systems, such as XOOPS and ImpressCMS.

Just over a year ago, Sun announced it was buying MySQL, Now, Oracle and Sun have announced an agreement where Oracle will acquire Sun.

Sun Solaris is the primary platform for Oracle and this deal will enable Oracle to optimize the Solaris operating system and database engines for peak performance in high-end applications. The transaction is valued at $5-7 billion.

It will be some time before the effects of this deal are truly known

May 7, 2009 is this year's National Day of Prayer. This is the 58th annual observation of "a powerful reminder of our need to kneel before God's throne in the public square".

As Christians on the Internet, what will your involvement be on this Thursday? How can your church or ministry's web site reach out to those in need of prayer? Do you have a means for people to submit and respond to prayer requests?

Some of the ways you can personally get involved are listed at the National Day of Prayer website. There are chat rooms, local event lists, prayer lists, tips, and video and audio downloads for your use.

Consider how you might do things differently on May 7th.

In Matthew 28:19-20, Jesus directed his disciples (us) to 'Go ...make ... baptize ... teach ... '

Today is set aside as Internet Evangelism Day to raise awareness in us that the Internet is one of those places for us to 'Go ...make ... baptize ... teach ... '. I would encourage each of you to take a few minutes today to consider how this applies to you and pray for those that have ventured into the World Wide Web as disciples.