LAMP, an open source web platform refers to a set of tools: Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (Perl or Python).Lamp enables rapid development and deployment of enterprise scale applications. The tools have the following functions: MySQL deals with data storage whereas PHP (Perl or Python) deals with business logic of the application. Linux provides robust server environment whereas Apache, the webserver, delivers the content.

Summary:

Frameworks	CodeIgniter (Active Record integration [Feature for ORM implementation]) CakePhp(ORM integration) Zend	AJAX/JavaScript	JQuery Prototype Scriptaculaous Dojo
CMS	Drupal Joomla	Template System	Smarty Fast Template System
Shopping cart	Os Commerce Ofbiz Magento™	Payment Gateways	Paypal Pro Standard Paypal Authorize .Net NetSuite (Web services)
CRM	Sugar CRM Tiger Custom CRM by HyTech

The advantages of LAMP are as follows:

• Building applications in LAMP leads to low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) as all sets of tools are open source.
• The component set of tools have faster improvement chances as they are all open source
• This platform is easy to use ,reliable, and provides greater flexibility.
• There is no fear of vendor lock-in (and hence platform lock-in) as in case with commercial software.
• Being an open source platform, LAMP offers dual license option (free and non-free). Hence, by buying the license fee, companies are allowed to not make source code available.

HyTech Professionals have a team of experts who can efficiently work with these loose collection of building blocks to build various types of web applications. Our experience and expertise enables us to judiciously decide which applications are not well suited for LAMP (e.g. applications that require frequent exchange of large amount of transient data) and hence suggest an alternative platform that will be best suited for that application. Some of our services are as follows:

• Building various types of web applications.
• Migration and porting of applications build in proprietary architecture to LAMP.
• Migration and porting of LAMP applications to other architectures like J2EE,and .Net.
• Testing services for LAMP applications.