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<P>Can I ask, as a general discussion, if anyone knows of any commercial grade PHP applications or better still develops them?</P>
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<P>The reason I am asking is that I am looking (purely for personal development at the moment) at the possibility to create a schools administration system on a LAMP stack.</P>
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<P>I work in a school that is Microsoft Windows based. Looking at the cost of the software we use at the moment (c. £12K pa then Microsoft Server/SQL Server licences on top) made me think what options were there for a FOSS version. This is also a single server deployment, so no redundancy/failover or load balancing which would be an extra software licencing cost.</P>
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<P>(The idea was also prompted by my doing a recent Microsoft Server version upgrade to see all the memory on a 54GB box and Microsoft deciding our legitimate licence key wasn't right and knocking it back to see only 4GB. Lost my virtualised email servers and remote desktop for half a day because of that. I want the control on my servers!)</P>
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<P>So, wondering what knowledge and experience is out there for this sort of thing. I'm looking at a personal project to develop an admin system in PHP but considering deployment requirements in the future. Am I probably looking at a particular framework, etc.?</P>
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<P>Any comments?</P>
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<P>Thanks.</P>
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<P>Glenn Glidden</P>
<P><A href="mailto:glenn@glidden.org.uk">glenn@glidden.org.uk</A></P>
<P><A href="http://www.glidden.org.uk">www.glidden.org.uk</A></P></BODY></html>