THE LAMP TECHNOLOGY
The platform to develop and execute high performance web applications formed by using Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (could be also Perl or Python) altogether is known as LAMP. The name LAMP is just an acronysm of these 4 technologies.
LAMP is considered one of the best solutions to develop and execute web applications. Each one of their components is of top quality and working together their virtues are multiplied. In contrast with other technolgies, LAMP lacks media publicity, this is because there is no corporation involved in it. In fact, LAMP is developed by the open source community made of enthusiast and top programmers from all over the world who work with quality as the main objetive. Linux as well as Apache, MySQL and PHP are Open Source Software, this means that if you hear about LAMP it is because of its virtues rather than its publicity.


LINUX
Operating System.
It's very powerful, stable, flexible and robust; Linux has a predominant position in the web environment and its uses are expanding constantly to others areas.


APACHE
Web Server Software.
Among all the Web Servers, Apache is by far the best, it's the most used (by the 70% of the servers), stable and Open Source.


MySQL
Relational Database System.
It's a fast and robust database system It gives our applications the posibility saving and accessing information very quicky aproach. It is well known because of its speed and reliability.



PHP
Web Scripting Language.
PHP is faster than the other web scripting lenguages. It's multiplataform, very robust and works perfectly together with Apache and MySQL.