...transformed in 1997 when it was taken over by the Israeli founders of Zend, who rewrote it and changed its name to PHPHypertext Processor. PHP borrows from C, Java and Perl. What's it for? PHP was designed to create dynamic web pages...
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/12/02/233670/hot-skills-php.htm
...but the open source technology PHP, which was originally an acronym for Personal Home Page, but now stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, is increasingly popular. Support is available from the company Zend. One open source package that...
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2001/08/30/182159/Open-source-lives.htm