web development technology
In our efforts to develop the highest quality products and services, Vizzions utilizes Open Source [^] software products as our primary development tools.
Our development environment, or the development tools we use, is oriented around open source software simply because these solutions offer the most platform flexibility and the best possible functionality. We're not alone; open source development tools comprise more than two-thirds of the servers, databases, and scripting languages in use on the Web today.
Collectively known as LAMP, our development environment typically refers to:
- » Linux [^] operating system
- » Apache [^] Web server
- » MySQL [^] relational database server
- » PHP [^] and/or Perl [^] programming languages
With the exception of Linux of course, each of these software technologies are platform OS (operating system) independent. More simply understood; any Vizzions developed product or service can be programmed to run on top of virtually every major type of computer operating system: Windows, Linux, UNIX, Mac OSX, etc.
As with any any other software, we at Vizzions have to stay concerned with the advancement and the security of the development technology we rely upon to develop our products and services. Interestingly enough, most open source software projects are among the most advanced and the most secure software offerings available anywhere.
One could imagine why; hundreds-of-thousands of developers, testers and regular users all working toward the same goal of shared, non-commercial software resources.