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Companies choose to build their applications on a PHP / LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP/Perl) for several reasons. The most salient benefits are speed, stability and cost. PHP applications usually run in a Unix/Linux environment, renowned for being stable and extremely fast. Owners and developers of PHP applications also reap benefits from the fact that PHP is open source software that is completely free for both developers, application owners and users.
This far PHP has had its largest group of adherents among the open source community and laymen, however it has gained enormous popularity during the past years among larger companies thanks to the clear benefits of PHP environments. Today PHP, and especially PHP5, has become a viable alternative to Java and .NET for building enterprise applications. PHP is backed by big players such as IBM.
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