Open Source tools are free, support open standards and are maintained by a small army of developers. Open Source software is vetted continuously for bugs and security holes.

intraMedia's choice as its Open Source platform for developing web sites that support two-way traffic is Drupal. Licensed under the GNU Public License, Drupal is the most widely supported Open Source Content Management System in the world today. Drupal's platform integrates popular features such as weblogs, collaborative tools, and discussion boards into one package and allows modular features to be turned on and off at will. Drupal sites use standards-compliant CSS and XHTML, optimizing your web site for search engine ranking.

L.A.M.P. stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. Linux is the most widely used open source computer operating system software in the world. Apache is the most widely used open source web server software in the world. MySQL is the most widely used open source database server software in the world. PHP is the most widely used open source programming software in the world. They are all supported by thousands, even millions of software professionals. They are all extremely secure, robust and scalable in the hands of software professionals. They are all free. (Software professionals not included)

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