Lukas, I certainly don't think people are scared. For me is just a question of considering that the PHP IDE that Zend seems to want to offer being too little too late and pretty much irrelevant. But since I never used their Zend Studio, not even their free 30 day trial, I don't think they owe me any explanation. In fact, I have benefited from reading some nice articles in their site without ever paying a penny to Zend.

I have been using PHPEclipse for the past two years. I think that overall the plugin rocks, even though there are still some well known missing features. So I was very curious to see what Zend was going to offer. As it turns out I was disappointed too. I think they created high expectations and failed to deliver. If, as it seems to be the case, debugging is not part of their offering the upside for me switching to the PHP IDE now is a big fat zero. In fact I already uninstalled the Zend plugin.