



LiteBreeze has chosen to focus on PHP / MySQL technology to be able to build up expertise, obtain economies of scale and thereby deliver value for money to clients. PHP is the programming language whereas MySQL is the database engine.
Why PHP / MySQL? Companies choose to build their applications on a PHP / MySQL foundation for several reasons. The most salient benefits are speed, stability and cost.
PHP has traditionally had a large group of adherents among the open source community. In the past years it has gained enormous popularity among larger companies. PHP is backed by big players such as IBM, Google and Yahoo and countless large portals such as Wikipedia, Youtube and Facebook run on PHP / MySQL technology.
Today PHP is the top choice for small and medium sized business. It's the most common programming language for the web. With the advent of PHP 5 it has become popular to build business and enterprise applications in as well.
PHP is open source and history shows that open source software is more secure than proprietary software such as Microsoft’s .NET platform. PHP applications usually run in Unix/Linux environments which are renowned for being stable and extremely fast.
Owners and developers of PHP applications also reap benefits from the fact that PHP is completely free for developers, application owners and users.
There’s a large network of companies and individuals that support PHP around the world. Countless open source scripts, manuals and discussion forums are available to PHP developers and administrators of PHP applications. This saves time and lowers cost for the company which ends up paying for the application development.
The fact that PHP is the most commonly used programming language for the web and that its developers are sharing so much code with each other makes PHP’s future look bright. There are constantly new open source applications, frameworks and independent features being released that developers and owners of PHP applications can take part of.