WIMP (software bundle)

Not to be confused with WIMP (computing).

The acronym WIMP is a solution stack of software, partially free and open source software, used to run dynamic Web sites on servers. The expansion is as follows:

The Microsoft Web Platform Installer is a tool to install applications on a WIMP-system.

LAMP is a similar stack, of entirely free software with Linux replacing Windows, and Apache replacing IIS.

WAMP is a similar stack, with Windows replacing Linux.

See also

References

  1. Dale Dougherty (January 26, 2001). "LAMP: The Open Source Web Platform". ONLamp.


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