January 10th, 2003

Rhode Island and LAMP

Rhode Island put itself on the cutting edge of hot-technology uptake

last year when it became one of the first state governments to get

beyond traditional government conservatism and implement open-source

technology. The gamble is paying off: The bill for the state's rules

and regula-tions database came in at $40,000\227only $6,000 of which was

hardware costs\227and took one consultant four months working only two

days a week to complete.

The project entailed putting a long-awaited rules and regulations

database online with MySQL, the open-source database from MySQL AB,

of Uppsala, Sweden. The implementation followed a model for open-

source deployments called LAMP that includes the Linux operating

system, Apache Web server, MySQL database and any of three

development languages\227PHP, Perl or Python.

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