acronym LAMP

[Gilles Gravier]

Hi!

Amedee Van Gasse (ubuntu) wrote:
> Matthew A Coulliette schreef:
>   
>> What does the acronym LAMP stand for?
>>     
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> This is an example of how an email should be snipped.
> A simple question, a simple answer. No need to hunt around in 5KiB of
> quotes.
>
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> L	Linux	(operating system)
> A	Apache	(webserver)
> M	MySQL	(database)
> P	PHP	(web programming language)
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> It is not one software package, but a description of a server configuration.
>
> Variations exist:
> * MAMP = Mac-based,
> * WAMP = Windows based
> * WIMP = Windows, IIS, MySQL, PHP
> * sometimes the P is another programming language like Perl or Python.
> * ...
>   

So it's often used in a generic form : "AMP"... as in the "AMP stack"...
in which case it's pretty much OS agnostic.

Gilles.