Developers who have used other tools have been switching to Aptana for a host of reasons. "My team and I have used Zend, PHPEdit, and Aptana Studio, all for extended periods of time. All packages 'do the job', but Aptana’s tools actually help you to code more efficiently, and in many different arenas", said Greg Ervin, IT director for Aurora WDC, a competitive intelligence research firm. "Today's web developer needs to understand more than one language, and Aptana understands that, with tools for PHP, MySQL, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, AIR, and others."

"Certainly, when creating solutions for the Web today, a PHP developer not only needs great tools for their server language of choice, but also great tools for the set of languages used in the browser: Ajax." said Paul Colton, CEO and Founder of Aptana. "However we did not stop there. Aptana Cloud, an easy to use, but powerfully scalable, application hosting and life-cycle management service built on cloud computing infrastructure, lets users instantly deploy their PHP apps to production servers as well as manage projects through development and release cycles via hosted source control, pre-production staging environments, application monitoring services and more. And do it all from within Aptana Studio. Such end to end integration with cloud computing services is unprecedented."

In reference to IntelliJ IDEA, Benjamin Shine, a freelance Web developer, recently commented in his blog: "[IntelliJ] was my editor of choice ... But Aptana Studio has delivered a game-changer: the IDE provides integrated deployment to cloud servers."

John Beynon, a web developer with the firm Monochrome, blogged "If you're looking to host a PHP application with minimum fuss and the option of scaling up/down then Aptana Cloud is a great choice and certainly by far the easiest way I’ve ever seen to getting an app up and running in the cloud."

Aptana PHP is free to use under its open source license and may be downloaded from http://www.aptana.com. Aptana Studio Pro, currently $99 or less per user, adds priority support and additional features including SFTP, FTPS, a JSON editor, remote project import wizards and more. Aptana Cloud pricing starts at under $1 per day.

Learn more at http://www.aptana.com.

About Aptana

Aptana provides a leading Web development, deployment and management suite for organizations who use web technologies including: Ajax, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby on Rails, and Python. Aptana Studio™, an Eclipse-based integrated development environment for web sites and applications, has been downloaded over 2.7 million times and continues to grow at a rate of over 100,000 downloads monthly. Aptana is also the creator of Aptana Jaxer, the world's first Ajax server. Using the open source Aptana Jaxer server, developers can write entire applications and presentation layers using Ajax, use server-side JavaScript to generate or manipulate web pages, directly interact with databases, file systems and networks, and execute application logic on the server. Aptana Cloud further integrates web application development, hosting, and management with cloud computing providers to provide an efficient end-to-end solution for organizations of all sizes.