The ThinkPHP blog has a new post today that mentions the economic journals becoming aware of LAMP in one of the largest PHP markets in the world - Germany.

PHP has been used in the business for years. In fact, we and many other companies provided business-critical solutions based on PHP (or LAMP) for several years now.

General IT magazines like iX or c't had several articles about PHP in the past, even the Computerwoche had several news items/articles about PHP and MySQL.

It's very satisfying to see that now economic journals like the German Wirtschaftswoche notice the OpenSource LAMP stack and define it as a serious competitor to .NET, Java & Co.

IT's wonderful to see that PHP (specifically in the context of LAMP) is gaining ground as a viable alternative to some of the other less-simplistic programming languages out there. Seems like all of the press that I've heard about LAMP/PHP has been positive. Sure there have been a few that have said it's "not quite ready" for the enterprise, but I think we're seeing more and more that developers and businesses are turning to LAMP-based solutions to get the job done - and loving every step of the way...