LAMP

LAMP is an acronym which stands for an open source web platform consisting of Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Perl/Python. Some of the positive factors to LAMP is that its components are free and though these components were originally not designed specifically for working with one another, they still work efficiently together as a reliable platform. With LAMP being open source, people can program their own additional data to applications and manipulate its text streams from different sources; it allows more developers to play with the source code. The pro to this ability is that there is a larger pool of developers who can work on the application which equates to a larger pool of talent.