LAMP (Linux/Apache/Mysql/PHP) powers the web and empowers the entrepreneur

17 July 2006 Category: A Personal Central Brain, Central Brain assembly, Central Brain building blocks, Free software and Open source, Health 3.0 National industry and patient medical record collaboration, Web 1.0 proprietary hierarchies vs. Web 3.0 community networks No Comments

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The global economy is 70% services based. Broadband penetration is growing. The opportunities for open source technology to change the status quo are staggering. LAMP is the technology which underpins most of the major web sites in the world today. It will be a key tool for the social and commercial entrepreneurs of tomorrow and underpin the the .NET boom.

Many open source applications will run on LAMP. LAMP is a set of open source technologies. They are packed together to provide a platform for EBusiness and most open source applications. If you can use LAMP, you can unlock the collective innovation of the open source community. The simplest installation of an open source application will involve copying the files to the web server, loading a file in your browser and answering a series of questions. You would be amazed at the number of open source applications that can be simply installed. You would also be amazed at how the install process can go astray. After a successful installation, you can modify the software and put it to any purpose you can conceive.

LAMP usually comes preinstalled on most web servers. However, it usually requires significant technical expertise to get it fully operational. Ubuntu recently announced that you can install LAMP with a single command on Ubuntu server (see Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server Edition to Include Certified LAMP Stack. In simple terms, you can download Ubuntu server, install it and run this single command and you have the something very similar to the major web companies. This is very empowering for the individual and the entrepreneur.

Please find enclosed some further information on LAMP below.

LAMP Servers on SUSEÃ‚Â® Linux Enterprise Get More, Spend Less for Your Custom Applications

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“Over the past two years, the LAMP stack of open source software componentsÃ¢â‚¬â€Linux*; the Apache Web server; MySQL* database; and the coder’s choice of PHP, Python or PerlÃ¢â‚¬â€has moved beyond its position as a Web developer’s creative toolkit to become a major development platform for the enterprise. Long a cornerstone of the Web’s highest volume sites (including Amazon, Friendster, Google and Yahoo), LAMP has more recently been used to create major online transactional systems for Boeing, Disney, Lufthansa and Sabre, to name only a few organizations.

What these bellwethers of online business have discovered is that open source software now offers the simplest, fastest, most flexible, affordable and scalable platform for building and deploying Web-based, enterprise-class applications. It’s a major shift in the software landscape with implications for anyone concerned with the cost, functionality and performance of enterprise applications.

Individually, the core LAMP components are as follows:

Linux
Linus Torvald’s 1991 announcement that he was coding a free UNIX-type operating system was a watershed event in the open source movement. Since version 1.0 was released in 1994, Linux has become firmly established as an enterprise-class alternative to proprietary UNIX* and Microsoft* products, largely through the efforts of commercial software providers like Novell that have extended the free Linux kernel and created the support and services infrastructure essential to enterprise users.

Apache
The Apache Web server traces its roots to the public domain HTTP daemon developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In 1995, it was adopted and completely rewritten by a group of volunteers that eventually became the Apache Software Foundation. Apache has been the most popular Web server every year since 1996 and has a current market share of just over 68 percent, according to a February 2006 Netcraft survey.

MySQL
MySQL is the world’s most popular open source database, with more than 8 million active installations. Many of the world’s largest organizationsÃ¢â‚¬â€including Sabre Holdings, Cox Communications, The Associated Press, NASA and SuzukiÃ¢â‚¬â€are realizing significant cost savings by using MySQL to power Web sites, business-critical enterprise applications and packaged software.

PHP
PHP is a widely used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and that can be embedded in HTML. In recent years, its relatively simple syntax, ease of use and open source licensing have made PHP one of the most popular languages on the Web.

Perl
Sometimes called “the duct tape of the Internet,” Perl is a cross-platform programming language popular with Web developers for its text manipulation capabilities and rapid development cycle. It is highly extensible, with more than 500 third-party modules currently available through the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN).

Python
Python is a portable, interpreted, object oriented programming language developed under the ownership of the Python Software Foundation. It features an elegant but not overly simple syntax, a small number of powerful high-level data types and a core that can be systematically extended with modules written in a compiled language such as C or C++.“