Lumen Gives Open Source Some SaaS | Linux Today

Lumen Gives Open Source Some SaaS

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 27, 2007

“Lumen Software is hoping to tap enterprises and software
developers interested in taking an open source slant on the
emerging software-as-a-service model. The company is offering up
its Lumenation SaaS development platform–an open source take on
proprietary SaaS development approaches used by Salesforce.com or
Microsoft’s OfficeLive.

“Lumenation is targeting its platform at developers that want to
provide SaaS offerings to end-user customers, but want to develop
with open source standard tools such as PHP and AJAX, running on a
LAPP server stack (Linux Apache, PostgreSQL and PHP–a twist on the
LAMP stack, which uses the MySQL database)…”


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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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