[CS-FSLUG] NI: Feature heap won't undo LAMP's toll on Microsoft

[Fred A. Miller]

"Another big attraction to the LAMP stack, in addition to the aforementioned 
modularity, is the option of simplicity.  Linux, by virtue of its open source 
nature, doesn't have nearly the layers of stuff hardwired into it that 
Windows Server 2003 does.   Not that all that stuff — systems management 
features, security features, etc. — aren't great to have.  Under the right 
circumstances in specific scenarios, it's wouldn't be unusual to take 
advantage of all of them.  But what if you don't want to?  Depending on where 
you start your Linux build from (either what a distributor like Red Hat or 
SuSE gives you, or starting from scratch), you're not stuck with a heap of 
features just because your vendor says they need to be in every build of your 
OS.  The degree of bloat is up to you.   And so, there are thousands of very 
efficiently configured LAMP and LAMJ deployments out there that contain only 
the componentry needed to fuel the applications they support."

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1505&tag=nl.e539

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