WAMP (Windows, Apache, Mysql, PHP)
The webserver community is well accustomed to the LAMP terminology. WAMP is the equivalent for Microsoft Windows platforms. The main difference is that WAMP does not include Windows, and a License must be purchased separately if you don’t already have one. Otherwise there are a variety of WAMP software packages that will completely implement a full webserver utilizing dynamic PHP, and Mysql database backend support. Once of the more popular WAMP software package can be found at wampserver.com. While the domain name of their website makes for easy Google-ability, there are other software package competing for territory. There are almost two dozen different pacakges that all provide an excellent, easy installation process to easily setup a complete webserver system on the Windows platform.
