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LAMP SCHMAMP

Posted Apr 11, 2008 15:28 UTC (Fri) by mheily (subscriber, #27123)
In reply to: LAMP SCHMAMP by Tuxie
Parent article: Mickos, As New Sun Exec: Linux Will Stay In LAMP (InformationWeek)

I agree. LAMP is a marketing term that sounds pleasing to English-speaking people. If GNU,
FLOSS, and Linux weren't such terrible sounding names, we could use them instead.

From now on, I will recommend using the OWDP stack for web-enabled applications.

 O - Operating system
 W - Webserver
 D - Database server
 P - Programming language

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LAMP SCHMAMP

Posted Apr 11, 2008 15:42 UTC (Fri) by cyrus (subscriber, #36858) [Link]

Actually, the way Linus pronounces Linux sounds pretty nice. Here in Germany, it's pronounced
the same. I agree that it sounds rather terrible when it's mispronounced.

LAMP SCHMAMP

Posted Apr 12, 2008 17:02 UTC (Sat) by rjamestaylor (guest, #339) [Link]

O - Operating system
W - Webserver
D - Database server
P - Programming language

May I recommend:

P - Programming language
W - Webserver
N - Network OS
D - Database

Yeah, I'm a SysAdmin at a hosting company...

LAMP SCHMAMP

Posted Apr 12, 2008 18:16 UTC (Sat) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

How about just:
"Free Software Web stack"?
"Open Source web services"?

Solaris (or at least a version of it), Linux,  FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Apache, Lighttp, Mysql,
Postgresql, SQLite, Derby, Python, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Java (at least a version of it) etc etc.

Who wants to try to figure out how to pronounce SLFOALMPSDPPPRJ?!

OWDP SCHWOWDP

Posted Apr 14, 2008 6:07 UTC (Mon) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

From now on, I will recommend using the OWDP stack for web-enabled applications.

Great: that way Microsoft will be able to hijack your acronym (with Windows, IIS, SQL Server, ASP.NET) with total impunity. At least throw in a "free" somewhere, so they feel ashamed of doing it.

OWDP SCHWOWDP

Posted Apr 14, 2008 6:58 UTC (Mon) by Tuxie (subscriber, #47191) [Link]

Microsoft Windows
ASP.NET
Microsoft SQL Server
IIS

LAMP SCHMAMP

Posted Apr 17, 2008 17:09 UTC (Thu) by lysse (subscriber, #3190) [Link]

Well, obviously the database underpins the entire structure. And the purpose of the webserver
is simply to, er, escort the application to its clients.

So I suggest that the new acronym should reflect this:

D -atabase
O -perating system
P -rogramming language
E -scort service

LAMP SCHMAMP

Posted Apr 18, 2008 20:38 UTC (Fri) by kevinbsmith (subscriber, #4778) [Link]

As someone who feels that (relational) databases are overused, I'll agree that DOPE is a great
acronym for any system that forces you to have a database even when you don't want one. Rails,
I'm looking at you!