Why LAMP

LAMP can significantly reduce or eliminate traditional IT costs for hardware acquisition and software license and applications maintenance costs. Very little infrastructure is required; LAMP is accessed through the internet from any web browser or web-enabled phone. As a service subscriber rather than software licensee, costly software upgrades that are generally required by the traditional ERP vendors every 2 to 3 years, are eliminated. There are no business disruptions during the no-cost LAMP upgrades. Subscribers can realize significant savings from LAMP. First time ERP clients avoid costly software and implementation costs, both initially and recurring, and can realize full benefits from an accelerated installation without having any infrastructure other than access to the internet from a web browser. Traditional legacy ERP customers can realize significant cost savings by reducing infrastructure, licenses, maintenance and application support within 12 months of implementation, an ROI that can be measured in months, not years. No ongoing expensive consulting and systems integration support is required. IMPART provides configuration and conversion on a fixed fee basis. IMPART doesn’t leave those other consulting, partners, behind that seemingly never goes away.

History and Pedigree

LAMP is among a select few enterprise software products developed entirely with open source software and protocols, resulting in lower costs to IMPART and customers alike. Built from the ground-up for SaaS delivery with multi-tenant (MT) architecture – it is not a rewrite or revamp of a single tenant (ST) system. LAMP has over 100 man-years of development during its five years of development effort to-date. Our software and services are built on over 30 years of experience in software design, development and delivery. The MT architecture allows IMPART to achieve an improved cost structure while maximizing the value to our customers by including improved and new business logic through rapid deployment of LAMP upgrades to the entire user base without upgrade cost or business interruption.

L A M P
The acronym LAMP refers to a solution stack of software programs, commonly free software programs, used together to run dynamic Web sites or servers:

Linux, (referring to OS kernel)
Apache, the Web server
MySQL, the database management system (or database server)
PHP (Sometimes Perl or Python), the programming language
L A M P Advantages
A Culture of Cooperation
The open source community and its culture of knowledge- and resource-sharing accelerates problem-solving. Community knowledgebases and libraries of sample application code help compress development time by enabling convenient reuse and adaptation.

Low Overhead
The compact LAMP component stack simplifies deployment and reduces processing overhead. Very tight integration between PHP and Apache, for instance, eliminates the need for application server software and in many instances eliminates an entire physical server tier.
Platform Portability
Because LAMP runs on a wide range of hardware platforms, users have maximum flexibility in deployment and server infrastructure design decisions. Of particular value is the option to deploy on clusters or grids of affordable x86-based servers. These utility computing architectures provide an optimized combination of efficient resource utilization, high availability, versatility and instant scalability.

Security and Stability
The LAMP server stack has a lower bug density — the number of bugs per thousand lines of code — than a baseline of 32 open source projects analyzed, according to a 2006 study by Coverity, a maker of code — analysis tools.

Over the years Saturn has developed standards, frameworks and reusable components for LAMP development. This helps Saturn to deliver economic and efficient solutions based on the LAMP stack.

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