Like many companies, Pfizer’s Global Pharmaceutical Group is focused on creating applications that can be shifted and shared as services to get more out of IT resources, a so-called service oriented ...

Even the most Microsoft-ardent developer will know web hosts favour Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP over Windows, IIS, ASP.NET and SQL Server. Thanks to virtualisation the days of dual booting are over.

The other day I decided that I needed a Linux install with the full LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL & PHP) setup on it. After a fair bit of digging about and reading a lot of websites I discovered that one ...