“TVminder, a free service aimed at the movie-viewing public
that sends its subscribers email reminders when actors or movies
they want to see appear on television, was built entirely with
open-source tools.“
“Said Alan Blount, CEO of MovieBone LLC, TVminder’s parent
organization, “Free and open-source tools provided everything we
need to build a production-quality, database-driven web site. Linux
is a robust and stable operating system, with Apache serving web
pages and Java servlets creating the dynamic content. Subscriber
data is stored using the MySQL database, and scripts written in the
Python programming language automate operations.”
“It’s not necessary to pay Microsoft the tall dollars in order
to build a production web site.”