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A Guide to Developing an Enterprise Open Source Strategy: The Rise of Open Source and the LAMP Stack

Overview Not only is open source ready for the enterprise, it's also proven there. Many of the world's largest organizations, including Yahoo!, Sabre Holdings, Cox Communications, The Associated Press, Google, and NASA, are realizing significant cost savings by using open source products to power web sites, business-critical enterprise applications and packaged software. Thousands of organizations have found open source to be highly reliable, secure, and cost-effective. In addition, leading companies are standardizing on the open source LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python) because of its lower cost, greater efficiency, and freedom from platform lock-in.

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Publisher	MySQL	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	February 2005	Downloads	357
Format	White Papers
Topics	ROI - TCO, Linux - Open Source

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