What does LAMP stand for?

During my keynote at FOSDEM, I spoke a little bit about the network effects involved in the success of the LAMP stack. Just in case anyone in the crowd was unaware of the LAMP acronym, I spelt it out for them:

  • Linux
  • Apache
  • Most of our cool scripting languages start with P
  • PostgreSQL

We all had a laugh, and then went out for beer. Mmm, Cherry Kriek.

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This entry was written by Jeff Waugh, posted on March 16, 2006 at 13:36, filed under Uncategorized and tagged FLOSS. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

7 Comments

  1. RubenV
    Posted March 16, 2006 at 18:12 | Permalink

    Hey, that’s my picture! :-)

    Great talk Jeff, hope to see you around again next year.

  2. michele
    Posted March 16, 2006 at 18:51 | Permalink

    Most of our cool scripting languages start with P -> Python –> TurboGears. ;-)

  3. bjoern
    Posted March 17, 2006 at 01:22 | Permalink

    Hey, just want to congratulate you for this great talk, we just need more of them! I really enjoyed it.
    But as a not-native english speaker on some points i had problems to follow you. Maybe on your next talk you can remeber the non-native english people and speak a little bit slower.

  4. irvin
    Posted March 17, 2006 at 02:16 | Permalink

    I also use BLIMP (BSD + LIghttpd + MySQL + P?)

  5. Scott
    Posted March 18, 2006 at 00:10 | Permalink

    OK, dumb question…

    Are you saying that your audience already knew what LAMP stood for and therefore made a joke of it by alterring it…

    Or did you actually not know that it’s

    Linux
    Apache
    MySQL
    PHP

  6. Johan van Zyl
    Posted March 18, 2006 at 03:10 | Permalink

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAMP_(software_bundle)
    The acronym LAMP (or L.A.M.P.) refers to a set of free software programs commonly used together to run dynamic Web sites or servers:

    * Linux, the operating system;
    * Apache, the Web server;
    * MySQL, the database management system (or database server);
    * Perl, PHP, and/or Python, scripting languages.

  7. jdub
    Posted March 18, 2006 at 03:27 | Permalink

    Thank you, Captain Obvious!

2 Trackbacks

  1. By A Blog of Very Little Brain on March 17, 2006 at 18:06

    , and not from killing every other GNU/Linux distro or by eating babies. Solve a bug, get a hug? Wonders will never cease. Just when you thought you got the latest buzzword sorted out, comes a newdefinition of LAMP. And on the other side, there seems to be some rumble among the communitee regarding LaunchPad, Canonical’s bug-tracking, translation and project co-ordination service. This guy adds some oil to the fire.

  2. By Planet Ubuntu on March 22, 2006 at 22:39

    March 16, 2006 02:36 AM