title: Choose Zend OR Symfony? And why?
body: <p>I know this has been done many times before (some posts are really old so would be nice to get feedback based on current state of play), but I would like people's advice on which framework to use for a new application that we are about to start developing.Though we have set-up everything according to ZEND but now client's investor need to know why we choose Zend.</p>
  
  <p>It was selected on the bases, out of 5 developers 2 are familiar with Zend. Now client want a detailed explanation why we didn't choose Symfony over Zend. Our reason is not enough to support our selection ;) so help me to choose which framework has what advantages over other so that we can present him solid reasons(for zend), and if symfony has more +ves then why we choose it(symfony) NOW. We can change our framework now.</p>
  
  <p>I guess the correct answer is 'depends on what you're application and you're own requirements/preferences' so here is a brief description of the application and some of our own requirements:</p>
  
  <h1>The Application:</h1>
  
  <p>A financial transaction system extracting live transactions data done over thousands/millions of POS world-wide. </p>
  
  <p>Few important things for project:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><p>Database is already provided to us &amp; it is an <strong>ORACLE</strong> database.</p></li>
  <li><p>Oracle database has more than 86 tables. Some of the tables have more than 60000 rows of data at present &amp; some of them have 79 columns too.</p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <h1>Our Requirements:</h1>
  
  <ul>
  <li>good support for <strong>jQuery</strong></li>
  <li>allow easy output of different types of output (HTML, XML, JSON)</li>
  <li>easy UI development using in-bulit functions/methods.</li>
  <li>ACL</li>
  <li>fairly fast development (as always, schedule is tight)</li>
  <li>nice clean business logic layer with freedom to architect the solution as we like.</li>
  <li>a framework that helps you to get stuff done quickly but doesn't restrict you too much.</li>
  <li>a good platform for doing other projects.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Any feedback from people who have used these frameworks (specially those who have used both) would be much appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>Zend is not compulsion, but if changed to symfony, we need support for that. So support your answers with reasons, links. </p>
  
  <p>Thank you.</p>