LAMPInfrastructure

The LAMP infrastructure stack is Linux, Apache, My-SQL and PHP scripting. One can plug in another free database or scripting language and still be well within the spirit of the thing.

These components have a couple common threads. The first that jumps out is that they are open source, free or very cheap. The second is that they are very "lean and mean" for low overhead, high performance.

Proponents gamble that the benefits of lower cost, higher performance and simplicity outweigh the features of, say, Servlet and EJB programming with a high-end database.

Actually, for relatively small applications they already know the gamble pays off. The interesting thing to watch over time is how well this scales up into larger and larger applications on grids of CommodityServers. Large means, um, Amazon.com.

See O'Reilly's OnLamp.com for more.

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