Java was still new and cool in the late 90s. Sun shipped a lot of Solaris boxes, so an awful lot of stuff got built as Solaris, Apache, Oracle, Java. The SAOJ s

Java was still new and cool in the late 90s. Sun shipped a lot of Solaris boxes, so an awful lot of stuff got built as Solaris, Apache, Oracle, Java. The SAOJ stack if you like, rather than LAMP.