Acronym for Windows/Apache/MySQL/PHP, Python,
(and/or) PERL
The acronym WAMP refers to a set of free (open
source) applications, combined with Microsoft Windows, which are commonly
used in Web server environments. The WAMP stack provides developers with the
four key elements of a Web server: an operating system,
database, Web
server and Web scripting software. The combined usage of these programs is
called a server stack. In this stack, Microsoft Windows is the operating system
(OS), Apache is the Web server,
MySQL handles the database components, while
PHP,
Python, or PERL represents the dynamic scripting languages.