CIO India: Open Source Lights Up | Linux Today

CIO India: Open Source Lights Up

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 31, 2006

“The odds are good that the LAMP stack is running somewhere
inside your company. The acronym refers to the foundational
foursome of the open-source movement: The Linux operating system,
Apache Web server, MySQL database and, collectively, the Perl, PHP
and Python programming languages. Development tools such as Eclipse
and application servers such as JBoss have also gained
popularity–and trust–especially now that major vendors such as
IBM, BEA Systems and Borland have adopted or supported them
commercially. But what about the next step up the software ladder?
Is open source ready for ERP, business intelligence or CRM…”?

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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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