WIMP (software bundle)
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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.{{Cite web|date=January 26, 2001|author=Dale Dougherty|work=ONLamp|title=LAMP: The Open Source Web Platform|url=http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/01/25/lamp.html|access-date=July 15, 2008|archive-date=April 30, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120430050833/http://onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/01/25/lamp.html|url-status=dead}}
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.