Does LAMP make economic sense?
Many companies have data scattered across several databases that are often maintained by proprietary software. For example, we might have a computer inventory in a specialized application that keeps track of assets, an office phone list in a Word document, employee locations in an Excel spreadsheet, etc.
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) is a combination of free software that offers a convenient way to centralize and administer data. In this tip, we'll discuss the benefits and drawbacks of LAMP.
The key component of LAMP is the MySQL database. Everything else serves to interface to that database and either adds, deletes, modifies or queries that data.
One advantage to having such a system is that it's flexible, extensible and we're not beholden to any one vendor should we wish to add a feature. Another advantage is that because MySQL is so ubiquitous, it's much easier to pull information and use it in other applications. Further, we can control security by protecting certain information by simply requiring a password to access such information.
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re: Does LAMP make economic sense?
Better question, does the article have anything to do with the title?
How does a slight overview on MySQL equate to a position paper on the ROI for deploying a LAMP server?
re: Does LAMP make economic sense?
Yeah, I kinda wondered about that myself. :puzzled:
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