The acronym LAMP refers to a solution stack of software, usually free and open source software, used to run dynamic Web sites or servers. The original expansion is as follows:

• Linux, referring to the operating system
• Apache, the Web server
• MySQL, the database management system (or database server)
• one of several scripting languages: Perl, PHP or Python.

The combination of these technologies is used primarily to define a web server infrastructure, define a programming paradigm of developing software, and establish a software distribution package.

We have been using this type of software solution for the last 5 years and we are very experienced with all the parts of it, we have found it to be one of the most powerful web technology's to use for today's 2.0 web sites.