LAMP - opensource platform for open source community

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In recent years, the open source movement has been in the center of focus from many corporations and individuals alike thanks to the high cost involved with getting the proprietary technologies.

In web development technologies, the open source LAMP platform has emerged. So what exactly is LAMP?

What is open source LAMP?
LAMP is a short form (acronym) describing the use of 4 distinctive open source software platforms together to build powerful web application. The term LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP(or Perl, Python scripting language).

In the LAMP open source system, Linux provides as a based Operating system, managing the network access, stroage and other backend supporting functionality. Apache is a web server dealing with hosting the web application and web traffic. MySql serves as a powerful relational database management system to store and manage data or content needs for the web application. Finally, PHP (or perl or Python) is a scripting language used to write the actual web application and its logic.
In conjunction, the four open source platforms namely Linux,Apache,Mysql and PHP (LAMP) provides a cheaper and powerful way for building web application.