The Release Of Windows Azure Platform Creates Opportunities For Php Development In India

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Microsoft has decided to launch its cloud platform - Azure to encourage developers from all technologies to join hands and build applications that are supported by the Microsoft cloud irrespective of their underlying technologies. This is great news for the market of PHP Development in India as it will now have new vistas to broaden its businesses to. As it is the PHP development services of India are renowned world over and this will on further the applications and demand of the premium Indian outsourcing services. PHP being open source has the businesses across the world adapting it as the PHP application development services are inexpensive yet deliver the same scalability and quality as the other premium web development technologies do. Microsoft Azure supports the applications built on PHP frameworks and thus PHP developers have that advantage of working on the high end Microsoft technologies which are generally priced expensively. The developers can make use of the Visual Studio components specially built for the Azure cloud platform and even the ...
... open source Eclipse IDE to build fully functional PHP apps that run on the Microsoft platform.

The Windows Azure platform supports Internet protocols like HTTP, XML, SOAP and REST. PHP runs on Azure using Fast CGI, and therefore Azure services can be called from other platforms and programming languages like PHP. It is a cloud environment that helps PHP applications to share the stored information with .NET applications and vice-versa.

PHP development in India will see a boom in demand as the enterprises will soon be turning to the cloud for their business development and processing activities. The PHP developers would be equipped with the Open Source PHP Azure SDK (PHP Azure) which provides them interoperability to work with Windows Azure cloud services platform. PHP Azure comes with a comprehensive class library for HTTP transport, AuthN/AuthZ, REST and Error Management. Using advanced tools like the Eclipse IDE a PHP developer can easily do PHP application development for the cloud platform. On the other hand Microsoft too is providing a PHP support to its Visual Studio Development Tool Kit for Windows Azure to use ADO.Net Data Services included in .NET Framework.

Now, where does the opportunity comes in for PHP development in India? Well, the PHP developers in India are very talented and offer a huge pool of human resource for the worldwide market to access and extract competitive solutions from. The services are affordable and have uncompromised quality. The industry will now be addressing the cloud development needs through the Fast CGI protocol in Windows Azure hosting environment that enables the PHP developers to run web applications on Windows Azure that were written using 3rd party programming languages including PHP. These applications, that are built on the PHP technology and yet run for the Microsoft Azure platform, include Silverlight RIAs, IE Webslices & accelerators, Microsoft Virtual Earth maps and many more. This interoperability opens up a wide window of opportunity to tap on for the outsourcing industry, especially PHP development in India. The PHP developers will have the opportunity to work on Microsoft Visual Studio development environment and .NET Framework and they can build scalable applications using their development skills.