Sun is announcing on Wednesday availability of Sun Web Stack, which puts the company???s own twist on the popular open-source LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL Perl/Python or PHP) stack. Sun will ship Sun OpenSSO Express, which is a version of Sun’s OpenSSO (single sign-on) software featuring enterprise support and indemnification.

Sun Web Stack provides software needed for deploying Web applications and Web sites, said Ken Drachnik, Sun open source community development and marketing manager.

Web Stack consists of Web and proxy servers, database and scripting languages, and the Apache HTTP Web server version 2.2.8. Featured components include the Apache Modules Memcached 1.2.5 distributed memory object system, the MySQL 5.1 database, lightpdd Web server v 1.4.18 and Tomcat Servlet engine 6.0.16. Versions of the Ruby, Perl, PHP, Ruby on Rails, and RubyGems development platforms are featured as well.

Also included is the Mongrel 1.0.1 HTTP library and server for Ruby, the fcgi package providing FastCGI capabilities, RedCloth text parsing, and the Squid proxy server 2.16.x

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