Overheard – No LAMP in the cloud?

This generation of web services got their start from LAMP – a stack of simple, yet powerful technologies that to this day is behind a lot of popular web sites. The beauty of LAMP is in its simplicity; it makes it very easy to get a prototype out the door. The problem with LAMP is in its scalability. Alex Iskold, Reaching for the Sky Through The Compute Clouds

The first scalability issue is fairly minor – threads and socket connections of the Apache web server. When load increases and configuration is not tuned properly you might run into problems. But the second problem with LAMP is far more significant: the MySQL relational database is the ultimate bottleneck of the system.

Lately I’ve been reading about the future of the LAMP stack, which I always thought of as the poster child for Web 2.0. Alex got me wondering about the future of LAMP now that everything is cloud-colored. Will MySQL be the bottleneck?  But then I read this article about Sun Microsystems throwing “more chips into its “billion-dollar bet on the LAMP stack” with the recent launch of its MySQL Enterprise 2008” and now I’m not so sure that LAMP is on its way out.