WIMP (software bundle) explained

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:

• Windows, referring to the operating system;
• IIS, the web server;
• MySQL, MS SQL Server or MS Access, the database management system (or database server);
• PHP or others, e.g. the Perl, Python, PowerShell programming languages.^[1]

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 HTTP Server replacing IIS.

WAMP is a similar stack, with Apache replacing IIS.

See also

• List of Apache–MySQL–PHP packages
• Microsoft Web Platform Installer

Notes and References

1. Web site: January 26, 2001. Dale Dougherty. ONLamp. LAMP: The Open Source Web Platform. July 15, 2008. April 30, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120430050833/http://onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/01/25/lamp.html. dead.