- Linux, the operating system;
- Apache, the Web server;
- MySQL, the database management system (or database server);
- Perl, PHP, Python, and/or Primate (mod mono), scripting/programming languages.
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 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 Apple Computer's WebObjects, Java/Java EE and Microsoft's .NET architecture.
The scripting component of the LAMP stack has its origins in the CGI web interfaces that became popular in the early 1990s. This technology allows the user of a web browser to execute a program on the web server, and to thereby receive dynamic as well as static content. Programmers used scripting languages with these programs because of their ability to manipulate text streams easily and efficiently, even when they originate from disparate sources. For this reason system designers often referred to such scripting systems as glue languages.
Michael Kunze coined
the acronym LAMP
in an article for the
German computing
magazine c't in
1998 (12/98, page 230).
The article aimed to
show that a bundle of
free software could
provide a viable
alternative to
commercial packages.
Knowing about the
IT-world's love of
acronyms, Kunze came up
with LAMP as a
marketing-like term to
popularize the use of
free software. O'Reilly
and MySQL AB have
popularized the term
among English-speakers.
Indeed, MySQL AB has
since based some of its
marketing efforts on the
popularity of the LAMP
stack.
source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAMP_(software_bundle)