--- In [email protected], "Donna F." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Tippus Tailus" <tippus@> wrote: > > > > If you wanted to expound the merits of the LAMP stack, what > > applications would you mention? > > I guess that depends on what you're trying to sell. Are you trying to > convince someone to switch from <something they use now> for <some > LAMP thing>, then you need to find something that does a good job of > replacing their existing thing. > > If you're trying to convince the greater public that LAMP is > better,then decide what gets your motor running, install it, and demo > it. You'll be passionate about the topic and that'll go a long way > toward your goal.
Thank you for your encouragement. > Anything specific you need/want to do? Professionally, I want to demonstrate lower TCO [Total Cost of Ownership] for LAMP stack solutions. This includes licensing, installation, customization, MTBF [Mean Time Between Failure], diagnosis and averting problems. I'm particularly impressed that open solutions allow more fault finding techniques and therefore quicker remedies. Personally, I want to demonstrate the benefits of open formats, or at least open code to access formats. I am constantly plagued by people who think that sending me proprietary documents, audio, video and databases is acceptable. One person found it completely inconceiveable that I could be browsing the web on a computer that didn't have MicroSoft Word. At the time, I was using MacOS9 to SSH to Lynx on FreeBSD. That's possibly the fastest, most stable and most secure way to browse the web on dial-up. Unfortunately, it snags on every PDF file, every Word document and every chunk of MacroMedia Flash and JavaScript. > D. Tippus Tailus
