diff --git a/chapters/intro.xml b/chapters/intro.xml
index ae2ffaeb1de3..76412b2abd13 100644
--- a/chapters/intro.xml
+++ b/chapters/intro.xml
@@ -145,16 +145,12 @@
     <link linkend="book.curl">cURL</link> or <link linkend="book.sockets">sockets</link>,
     like CouchDB.
    </para>
-   <para>
+   <simpara>
     PHP also has support for talking to other services using protocols
     such as LDAP, IMAP, SNMP, NNTP, POP3, HTTP, COM (on Windows) and
     countless others. It can also open raw network sockets and
-    interact using any other protocol. PHP has support for the WDDX
-    complex data exchange between virtually all Web programming
-    languages. Talking about interconnection, PHP has support for
-    instantiation of Java objects and using them transparently
-    as PHP objects.
-   </para>
+    interact using any other protocol.
+   </simpara>
    <para>
     PHP has useful <link linkend="refs.basic.text">text processing</link> features,
     which includes the Perl compatible regular expressions (<link linkend="book.pcre">PCRE</link>),