IBM: LAMP Users Need to Grow Up

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. IBM: LAMP Users Need to Grow Up
According to an IBM researcher, businesses that use LAMP (Linix - Apache - MySQL - Perl, Python or PHP) will have to "grow up". "They're really primative tools," says Daniel Sabbah, general manager of IBM's Rational division. "Eventually, they are going to have to come up against scalability." In a spirited response (language warning), Ryan Tomayko calls him on it. "The LAMP model works because it was built to work for and by people building real stuff. The big vendor / big tools model failed because it was built to work for Gartner, Forrester, and Upper Management whose idea of 'work' turned out to be completely wrong." I agree with Tomayko. "The need for complex systems in the enterprise was and still is greatly overestimated. The trick isn't to make PHP more complex, it's to make the enterprise less complex. More...