
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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Hey, that’s my picture!
Great talk Jeff, hope to see you around again next year.
Most of our cool scripting languages start with P -> Python –> TurboGears.
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.
I also use BLIMP (BSD + LIghttpd + MySQL + P?)
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
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.
Thank you, Captain Obvious!
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, 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.
March 16, 2006 02:36 AM