Architectural advice

I would like advice on choosing the best components. **Please download the attached document for details!** **We need the following** * A solid, fast, lightweight, localhost-accessible web server. It should start and stop cleanly and quickly. No memory leaks or idle CPU usage. It needs to run on Windows XP, Windows Vista, OS X 10.5+, and popular distributions of Linux. It needs to be installed and uninstalled without user intervention (i.e, must be completely scriptable) * A server-side language that will run on the web server, and on all of the listed operating systems. The server-side language will need to be able to use some port of the [Lucene search engine][1] (there are ports or bindings for .NET, C, C++, Perl, Ruby, Python, Delphi, Lisp, and others). It will also need a local database of some sort ([SQLite][2] or something similarly lightweight). It will need to communicate with a internet web site to synchronize the user's favorites, etc. Just basic http get/post there. * A cross-platform mp3-splitting library. This will be used by a [Firefox extension][3], so it needs to be accessible via XPCOM, Java, Python, Perl, or Ruby. Firefox extensions are written in Javascript, but can access any [XPCOM-compatible libraries or languages][4]. Audiere ([login to view URL]) is an example of an XPCOM compatible library. Javascript, Java, Python, Perl, and Ruby are XPCOM-compatible languages. * A cross-platform CD/DVD burning library (for MP3 and CDA audio). Same requirements as above. ## Deliverables Good advice, backed by experience. ## Platform Windows XP, Vista, Linux, OS X