What does WISC (stack) mean?

Question

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”.

Answer 1

That looks correct although I would have called it WISN (Wizzen) with .NET at the end rather than a particular language within the .NET ecosphere.

The best one is:

FreeBSD Apache PostgreSQL Ruby (FAPpeR) / Perl/PHP (FAPP!) ...

Answer 2

Or WISA: Windows, IIS, SQL Server, ASP.net

I don't know why anyone whould 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 it's own.

Answer 3

If you're asking for something more-or-less like LAMP except it runs on Windows, I usually see

• WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP)
• WIMP (MS Windows; MS IIS (Internet Information Services); MySQL, MS SQL Server or MS Access; PHP, Perl, or Python).

On a completely unrelated topic,

When I use the term "WISC", I'm always talking about some WISC (writable instruction set computer) design, such as the Intel Xeon. Many of them "stack computers" (stack machines). Perhaps the most famous are the WISC CPU/16 and the WISC CPU/32 designed by Philip Koopman; each design is a "stack computer" (as opposed to a "memory-to-memory machine" or "RISC" or "accumulator machine").