ActiveGrid, a commercial open-source company, is creating the Grid Application Server, a next-generation enterprise development and deployment platform. ActiveGrid's native XML application platform harnesses the proven open-source LAMP stack to enable organizations to deploy and scale business applications across "transaction grids" of horizontally scaled commodity computers. The ActiveGrid solution enables organizations to rapidly integrate existing backend applications into new composite applications, dynamically adapt transaction processing at runtime and reap the economic benefits of open-source commodity computing.