Linux.com: Skinny is Speedy Thanks to OSS

“SkinnyCorp.com has built a group of community-based sites on a
traditional LAMP stack–Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. SkinnyCorp
software engineer Harper Reed credits the open source
infrastructure with keeping the business agile. He says the
licensing costs of proprietary software would have strangled a
business that’s growing as quickly as his.

“SkinnyCorp owns a collection of blog and ecommerce sites. The
founders, Jake Nickell and Jacob DeHart, met in 2000 on a graphic
design forum. After Jake won a T-shirt design contest, they decided
it would be fun to start a business selling community-designed
T-shirts. They called it threadless.com. Participants get to submit
T-shirt designs, which are judged by the threadless.com community.
The winning designs go up for sale on the site, and the designer
gets a cash prize…”

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