Published April 29th, 2003 by Jim O'Halloran
Lamp Light
The Guardian has a good overview of the LAMP platform and applications, which serves as a good introduction to web applications currently available for Linux.
The release this week of Windows Server 2003 Web Server edition is putting low-cost web servers firmly on the agenda of corporate IT. Microsoft is bringing out a new product in a market that has traditionally been the home of open-source solutions. Generally rolled out under the business radar, small web servers and web applications have been assisting teams and project groups, even providing quick wins for companies that want to develop a low-cost web presence.
The key to the explosion of small web applications is the combination of four key technologies: Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl (or PHP or Python), often known by the acronym Lamp.