In Pictures: 10 technologies that changed business forever

The applications, devices and services that have changed the way we do business often started as small-scale alternatives to the status quo. Now we can't survive without them.

1. The LAMP Stack

Here's an innovation you won't hear about in an ad during the Summer Olympics. The LAMP Stack—Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP—is a bundle of free open source tools for Web development and deployment. Jordan Hudgens, a software engineer for MCW Services, says LAMP was groundbreaking because of its low deployment costs. That makes sense—before LAMP, companies would have to hire a disparate group of engineers, many of them using the .NET Framework, and license technology from Oracle and Microsoft.

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