Businesses that run on the Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Python (LAMP) model will have to "grow up" to avoid reliability issues in future, an IBM executive said.
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Start-up ActiveGrid has released an update to its toolset for building business applications with open-source software, adding support for IBM's newly introduced free DB2 database.
Linux leader Red Hat is selling subscriptions for three collections of higher-level applications that run Web sites' Java server software.
As PHP apparently becomes the world's leading scripting language, the open-source LAMP burns a little more brightly.
Databases have been available with an open-source licence for many years. But the past few months have seen a growing number of partnerships and products aimed at maturing the industry of add-ons and support services -- vital to winning over corporate customers.
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