ComputerWeekly: Lamp Open Platform Lights the Way to Web Development Work

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 14, 2005

“Lamp is a web development and deployment platform assembled
from open source products. It includes a webserver, database and
scripting language. These products can be downloaded free or
bought, with support, from Linux distributors, specialist suppliers
such as Activegrid, and major software players, particularly
IBM.

“The acronym usually stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP,
but the scripting language could also be Perl or Python. Variants
include Postgres database (Lapp), and Wimp or Wamp (Windows with
IIS or Apache)…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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