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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.

    • 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 Windows replacing Linux.

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    WIMP (software bundle) Wikipedia
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