To run PHP projects, you need a PHP web stack, which consists of the PHP engine, MySQL database server, Apache web server, and XDebug extension. Correctly configuring the web stack, even in an AMP package, can be problematic.

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A very good article.

"Note: this is not meant to be MySQL-bashing. Some of these limitations are going to be fixed in future versions of MySQL, but they generally apply to current GA version 5.1. Some things are possible to achieve by choosing one particular way to use the server, at the exclusion of other things (e.g. Cluster rules out foreign keys, spatial data types rules out transactions). I am posting this list at the request of some Oracle DBAs who asked me to produce it for them."

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Sun Microsystems has announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an icon of the open source movement and developer of one of the world's fastest growing open source databases for approximately $1 billion.

With millions of global deployments, including Facebook, Google, Nokia, Baidu and China Mobile, MySQL will bring synergies to Sun that could change the landscape of the software industry by driving new adoption of MySQL's open source database in more traditional applications and enterprises.

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