It started innocently enough; someone mailed the internal bloggers’ list saying “We’ve got this Beyond LAMP article on SDN, might be good blog fodder.” Which constituted an opportunity for geeks to have fun with acronyms.
That was yesterday, and they’re still coming. Let’s assume that “L” always stands for Linux, “A” for Apache, “M” for MySQL, and “P” for PHP (or Perl or Python).
| Acronym | Key |
|---|---|
| SAMP | Solaris |
| MARS | Rails, Solaris |
| MAPS | Solaris |
| SPAM | Solaris |
| WIMP | Windows, IIS |
| DAMN | DirectX, ActiveX, .NET |
| WIMN | Windows, IIS, .NET (pronounced “women”) |
| SIN | SQL Server, IIS, .NET |
I bet you can think of some more.
Comment feed for ongoing:
From: Ben Hutchings (Jul 10 2008, at 11:10)
LAMP = Linux, Apache, Many-scripting-languages and PostgreSQL has also been suggested
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From: John Cowan (Jul 10 2008, at 11:51)
HAXE (the name's overloaded, so sue me) = HTML + Apache + "ex", my CMS.
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From: Adrian Holovaty (Jul 10 2008, at 12:01)
We threw around some fun acronyms in the Django community a couple of years ago --
http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2006/may/03/paid/
PAID. PostgreSQL, Apache, Internet, Django.
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From: Dan (Jul 10 2008, at 12:18)
DAMP: Debian
RAMP: RedHat
LESS: EC2, S3, SimpleDB
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From: Kevin Marks (Jul 10 2008, at 12:34)
BAP - BigTable, AppEngine, Python ?
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From: Bob Haugen (Jul 10 2008, at 13:01)
LAPD - Linux, Apache Postgres, Django
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From: Marcus Ramberg (Jul 10 2008, at 13:05)
CLAMP - Catalyst Linux Apache MySQL Perl
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From: Rob Menke (Jul 10 2008, at 13:29)
I've been trying to get people to say CASH — CSS, AJAX, SVG, HTML — as a viable Flash competitor, but no luck so far. You just can't force acronyms.
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From: Geoff Arnold (Jul 10 2008, at 15:19)
GLAM - Groovy, Linux, Apache, MySQL
or
SLAG - S3, Linux, Apache, Groovy
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From: Kirk Brown (Jul 10 2008, at 15:41)
My current environment led me to discover VAMP: Vista, Apache, MySQL, PHP.
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From: g. (Jul 10 2008, at 16:04)
I think WiMP is already reserved for Windows Media Player ;)
How about slightly ironic LiMP (Lighttpd, Mysql, PHP)?
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From: Giovanni (Jul 11 2008, at 02:00)
DUMP: Debian or Ubuntu, MySQL, Perl. No Apache, though.
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From: bjoern (Jul 11 2008, at 02:19)
don't you forget about
MAMP - Mac Apache MySQL PHP
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From: Pichi (Jul 11 2008, at 05:01)
LYME - Linux Yaws Mnesia Erlang
LEME - Linux Erlyweb Mnesia/MySQL Erlang
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From: Jim Robinson (Jul 12 2008, at 08:29)
Too bad we've got Apache in the mix, otherwise we could use
XSLT - XSLT, Solaris, Linux, Tomcat
but I guess we have to stick with SALTX or something.
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From: Tim (but not THE Tim) (Jul 12 2008, at 19:06)
ZAP - (z/OS, z/VM, or z/Linux) Apache and (Perl, Python, PHP)
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From: Michael Davies (Jul 13 2008, at 12:42)
GLASS - GemStone, Linux, Apache, Seaside, and Smalltalk -- a continuation-based web framework with massively-scalable persistence from the guys behind MagLev -- see http://seaside.gemstone.com/
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From: Tim H (Jul 15 2008, at 02:18)
ALRM (alarm) - Apache Linux Rails MySQL
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From: JP Antunes (Jul 19 2008, at 01:42)
FARM - FreeBSD, Apache, Rails and MySQL
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