L.A.M.P. refers to a toolset consisting of Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP|Perl|Python|Postgresql... providing a powerful framework for rapid development of robust solutions. Each component is open source and has proven to be enterprise ready.
From Groklaw:
Remember the New York State group that was told to investigate longterm storage needs in government and ODF/OOXML? The report is now published, "A Strategy for Openness: Enhancing E-Records Access in New York State". You can get it here in doc, PDF and odt formats.
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Head Start Students at the San Carlos Apache Reservation receive One Laptop Per Child XO Laptops from the Global Literacy Foundation. Read more at globalliteracy.org
Merry Happy Christmas Holiday New Years!
Anyway, the holidays are always stressful... so hardware never fails to fail at this wonderful time of the year.
In the last few days I've replaced three hard drives, a wireless access point, cable modem and power supply. This is after 3+ years of reliable service from most of the failed components. Cable modems never seem to last more than 18 months -- I think I'm pretty rough on 'em bandwidth-wise.
Apache Friends is a non-profit organization based in Germany with similar goals as LAMPgroup. They have been running since 2002 and I have used their XAMPP (Apache/MySQL/PHP/Perl/MyPHPAdmin/Webalizer...) prepackaged stack for a couple of years on both Windows and Linux.
XAMP also provides a nice admin tool to start and stop the services and is easy to deinstall.
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Reports, creating them, running them, distributing them - are the bane of every developers, users, and administrators existance. But people LOVE their reports. Many commercial solutions exist to try and ease the agony of report creation and management; most famously (or notoriously) is "Crystal Reports". Open Reports is the Open Source answer to reporting. Using the renowned Jasper reports format and libraries Open Reports provides a power report server that runs reports on the server side, while letting you develop reports in a client-side GUI assemble-it manner. And not just any reports, but beautiful and colorful reports. Output can be delivered right to a user's browser window as PDF, to their desktop as XLS, or as plain old CSV - all from the same report. Access to reports can be restricted (on the server!) to certain users and groups - and just for kicks a powerful schedular is built in too.
OSoft's vision is to train, educate, and help the Open Source community by providing a standardized reference platform through which open source documentation, training content, and books are delivered.
Is it just me? Or is this a must-have? ! I'd love to use this to: run a "whacked" version of a website, demonstrate a user interface, set up a mobile application, then deploy and test it out in the field... the possibilities with this pocket-sized hardware platform are really getting me revved up!
You may have noticed the drupal related pages appearing on the site.
Drupal is a big part of the enterprise software stack around which LAMPgroup has formed. So, explorations leading to documentation are put into the public realm from the earliest drafts. Feel free to add your input, testing, criticism etc.