Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Getting the scoop on Lumen

Hey, C|Net scooped our release set for tomorrow! "Lumen Software makes way for 'LAPP' stack" Here's a partial quote:

> Lumen Software is expected to release a toolkit on Wednesday for
> building hosted applications using the "LAPP" stack, consisting of
> Linux, the Apache Web server, PostgreSQL database and the PHP
> scripting language.

Also, InfoWorld blogged about open source Saas. "Lumen: Open source SaaS" I particularly liked Matt Asay's distinction between truly "wedding" open source and SaaS versus just stealing from open source:

> Most interesting of all, however, is how Lumen and others will wed
> open source with SaaS. Not the "wedding" that consists of lots of
> Web 2.0 companies pilfering open source and giving nothing back
> (or comparatively nothing). But true SaaS companies also existing
> as true open source companies. Lumen seems to be doing this well
> today. It's the exception.

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