Isn’t there an init script provided as with Zend Platform? I can’t imagine they want you to run the daemons directly.

By the way, Zend Core doesn’t come with 2 if I remember correctly. Zend Core comes with 1 (a generic one) and Zend Platform comes with 1 (a specific tuned down mysql for its internal storage).

Re: the not being a target market: it’s targeted at people that want to run php on their box but are not into sysadmin things. For dev environments it’s as useful as wamp, xamp etc.

For live environments, the installation thing is not the main selling point, that’s the autoupdater with the bugfix backport service that Zend offers.