SAMP (Sun Web Stack)

= SAMP (Web Stack) =

SAMP stands for Solaris, Apache, MySQL and PHP.
Web Stack is a collection of popular technologies designed and optimized for Web Tier deployments (specially on Sun systems and Solaris). This is a fully open source effort where all components are open source, build infrastructure is open source, and all enhancements are contributed upstream to their respective communities.

Web Stack Components

- Apache [http://apache.org]
- MySQL [http://mysql.com] - now owned by Sun Microsystems
- PHP [http://php.net]
- Squid - [http://www.squid-cache.org/]
- memcached - [http://www.danga.com/memcached/]
- Ruby [http://www.ruby-lang.org/]
- lighttpd [http://www.lighttpd.net/]
- varnish [http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/]
more...

History

OpenSolaris Web Stack started in July 2007.
First delivery of Web Stack was SXDE 1/08.
Enhanced components in OpenSolaris 2008.05.
Coming up...Additions and enhancements in OpenSolaris 2008.11
Sun Web Stack (on Solaris 10, Linux, and more)

Features

smf support - daemon processes (such as Apache, Squid, MySQL) are enhanced to be manageable using smf
DTrace probes - DTrace is a key observability advantage in OpenSolaris. Today Apache, PHP and Ruby are DTrace-enabled. MySQL dtrace support is coming soon.

References

Project site: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/webstack/
The primary source of news, day to day announcements and up to date commentary: http://blogs.sun.com/jyrivirkki/
Documentation: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/webstack/Documentation/