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The eLAMP Proposition

Today’s enterprises need reliable, secure, highly functional, high performance, portable and scalable internet service applications, yet CTOs face intense pressure to develop these powerful systems on the leanest of budgets. Even five years ago, options for accomplishing these business goals were limited to well-known proprietary offerings. Few high-profile technology leaders trusted open source software to provide viable resources for the demands of a large-scale enterprise.

Now, however, because of the maturity, velocity, security and scalability achieved in particular by the LAMP stack and the training, certification and support offered by a solid array of providers, we believe that LAMP has proven its ability to provide performance that CTOs at the world’s largest enterprises can rely on for global deployment.

Further, LAMP has transcended its origins as a stack strictly comprised of Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Python and Perl.  Today, LAMP as an acronym is more symbolic than literal.

L – Open Source Internet Enabled Operating Systems (Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin)

A – Open Source Internet Application Servers (Apache HTTPD, JBoss, Tomcat, Zimbra)

M - Open Source Databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, CouchDB, MongoDB)

P – Open Source Internet Focused Programming Languages (PHP, Python, Perl, Java,

JavaScript, Ruby, Erlang)

In addition, the hardware infrastructure on which LAMP used to run has matured beyond its legacy.  While not a fit for every enterprise, innovations such as IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service), $aaS (Paid Software as a Service) and oSaaS (Open Software as a Service) now offer CTOs even more flexibility in how they structure systems.

Because of these software and hardware advances, we believe that Enterprise LAMP will become a mainstream choice for enterprise use, and we have invited the architects of this evolution to answer your questions at a special Summit for CTOs.