LAMP, Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/Perl/Python is starting to make an impression as a development framework for enterprise according to Cnet. Since most of the rest of the online world is already using LAMP or part’s of it, it isn’t really a surprise to discover that big companies are following suit.
Creating solid but flexible frameworks that best utilise LAMP’s strengths is what is needed most in the competition with .NET and Java. Having said that, if the Apache foundation’s Harmony project gets a finished stable product out soon, we will have to figure out how to get a J into LAMP. Harmony is to be an Open Source implementing of the Java J2SE specification and would add another compelling reason for Enterprise to consider LAMP (or LAMJ as the case may be.) As the Cnet article explains, LAMP isn’t just a bunch of unaffiliated Open Source developers, it has the backing of several large companies now. Apache already has about 70 percent of the web hosting market stitched up so they are not starting from zero to work their way up, they already have the most popular web server software in the world as part of their base.
