Tutorial: Understanding LAMP

[mandy]

...LAMP is a Web application development and deployment environment that, although powerful, is also comparatively simple and easy to use. This article will explain what LAMP is, the different components of the LAMP environment, and how, when combined, they create such a powerful environment. We will also look at how LAMP technology can drive Web applications.
Exploding the Acronym

Simply exploding the acronym on a letter by letter basis gives us the following elements:

    * Linux
    * Apache Web server
    * MySQL database
    * Perl, Python, or PHP

full article: http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/art..._3567741_1

[jezebel]

PHP, or Personal Home Pages, was originally a suite of Perl scripts that used the CGI interface to create a dynamic home page for Rasmus Lerdorf. When the PHP environment took off, the language was completely redeveloped as a stand-alone programming language, but it still owes much of the language semantics to the Perl language on which it was based

I've used it forever and never knew it stood for Personal Home Pages  :hoxmassnow10:

[rose]

WIMP - Windows, IIS, MySQL, Perl/Python/PHP

Perfect description. WIMP. 

The Postgres equivalent LAPP can do everything the LAMP does.