法国工程师Francois Zaninotto在其雇主公司Sensio的赞助下开发了一套web应用开发的开源框架: Symfony发布了。
Symfony是个基于PHP5的面向对象的Web Framework,充分借鉴了Ruby下的Rails，Python下的Django,它基于Mojavi(另外一个PHP MVC Framework)的V3版本原形开发独立出来的
Django for Python is the most recently announced of what is becoming a long line of web frameworks inspired by Ruby on Rails. Others that have popped up include MonoRail for .NET & Mono, Subway for Python, Trails for Java, Catalyst and Maypole for Perl. In the context of all these rails derivatives, this article on "Could Rails have been built without Ruby?" is an interesting read