LAMP is a well-known acronym for the software/technology bundle/stack representing Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. There are a few passing references on the Web that use the acronym WISC to speak of the other (supposedly Microsoft-centric) software/technology bundle/stack in contrast to LAMP. There is, however, no Wikipedia entry on WISC at this time nor any relevant results from googling. Does the following seem like the right de-composition of the WISC acronym?
- W = Windows
- I = Internet Information Services (IIS)
- S = SQL Server
- C = C#
If yes, is there a Web reference that coins the WISC acronym? If no, is there another acronym used to represent the Microsoft-centric stack when comparing with LAMP?
P.S. First sighting of WISC at “ASP.NET Caching vs. memcached: Seeking Efficient Data Partitioning, Lookup, and Retrieval”.
Or WISA: Windows, IIS, SQL Server, ASP.net
I don’t know why anyone would want to call it WISC, as these people are essentially saying ‘We will never ever use VB.NET, IronPython, IronRuby, F# or any other .NET Language’. Also calling it .NET (WISN) sounds a bit weird as well, since ASP.NET is the Web-Technology of .NET. But well, that’s the good things about acronyms and standard. Everyone has its own.