WIMP (software bundle)

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

• Microsoft Web Platform Installer

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