LAMP

The acronym LAMP (or L.A.M.P.) refers to a set of free software programs commonly used together to run dynamic Web sites or servers:

Linux, the operating system;

Apache, the Web server;

MySQL, the database management system (or database server);

Perl, PHP, Python, and/or (rarely) Primate, scripting/programming languages.

The acronym has three major uses:

Define a web server infrastructure

Define a programming paradigm of developing software

Define a software distribution package

To be precise, it is an open source Web platform.

Though the originators of these open source programs did not design them all to work specifically with each other, the combination has become popular because of its low acquisition cost and because of the ubiquity of its components (which come bundled with most current Linux distributions particularly as deployed by ISPs). When used in combination they represent a solution stack of technologies that support application servers. Other such stacks include unified application development environments such as Apple Computer's WebObjects, Java/Java EE, Grails, and Microsoft's .NET architecture.