Some software stacks, like LAMP, flourished…and others, well, they just didn’t make the grade.

FLUKE
Facebook, LUa, and KErberos

WASTE
Google Wave, ASP, Sparrow, Truecrypt, and Encarta

FAPPY
Flat files, APache, and PYthon

HYPESS
Hadoop, Yo, PErl, Swift, and a Segway

SCHEET
Scala, a CHange purse, Java EE, and Tomcat

FAIL
F#, Access, IIS, and Longhorn

NOBJOB
NOde.js, BLOBs, JQuery, and some Oracle Bloatware

GOALONG
GO, AnguLarJS, Offers, Nest API, and Google Maps

Peter Bolton is the author of Blowing the Bridge: A Software Story and has also been known to be a grumpy bastard on occasion.