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Production of free operating systems to drive personal computers to their full capabilities has proceeded in concert with—and to a large extent has been made possible by—the development of freely available tools such as gcc, the GNU C compiler. These efforts to make software available to anyone who wants it have resulted in what is now called the Open Source movement, and which has produced many important pieces of software. For example, Apache is the most widely used Web server on the Internet. Other Open Source successes are the Perl general-purpose scripting language and PHP, a language that is popular due largely to the ease with which it allows dynamic Web pages to be written. These all stand in contrast to proprietary solutions that lock you into high-priced products from vendors that don't even provide source code.
Database software has become more accessible, too. Database systems such as PostgreSQL are available for free. More recently, commercial vendors such as Informix and Oracle have begun to offer their software at no cost for operating systems such as Linux. (However, these latter products generally come in binary-only form with no support, which lessens their usefulness.)
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