We are just moving form Symfony to Zend after a long long debate. I was
wondering if anyone else had similar thoughts in the past.

Bye bye Symfony.. Hello
Zend<http://blog.kwiqq.com/2008/08/12/announcement-bye-bye-symfony-hello-z...>

To set the scene, there are three major PHP based open source frameworks
available out there: Symfony <http://www.symfony-project.org/>,
Zend<http://framework.zend.com/>and
CakePHP <http://cakephp.org/>. All very good frameworks and more or less the
norm for building successful social networks, although there are some
exceptions to the rule.

[image: Zend Symfony by you.]

The decision has been taken to STOP using Symfony for future projects. The
reason is well described<http://redotheweb.com/2008/05/16/no-one-is-irreplaceable/>by
one of the active collaborators of Symfony, François Zaninotto.
"Important
design choices are not discussed with the community, just like when symfony
was only developed internally. 95% of the code base is still the result of a
single man's work and decisions". François has now left Symfony, in his own
words as he couldn't get his views accepted. Although Symfony has now been
adopted by Yahoo and is being used by major projects like
(source<http://www.symfony-project.org/blog/2007/10/02/delicious-preview-buil...>)
: del.ico.us <http://www.delicious.com/>, Yahoo
bookmarks<http://bookmarks.yahoo.com/>and Yahoo
Answers <http://answers.yahoo.com/>
(source<http://www.symfony-project.org/blog/2008/05/08/yahoo-answers-powered-...>)
we feel the future of Symfony is not secure..... (
http://blog.kwiqq.com/2008/08/12/announcement-bye-bye-symfony-hello-z...)

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