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It refers to the components or technologies/languages/operating sytems/etc used to build a web site. For instance the "LAMP" stack is: Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP

Grant Limberg 2008-12-20 00:38:16

I guess for Microsoft, it's simply Microsoft Stack [or *The* Stack ? ;)]

Vyas Bharghava 2008-12-20 02:07:00

No its a W(I|A)M(P) Stack "Windows (IIS|Apache) (My|MS)sql (PHP)" And I would have to say that "*The* Stack" is LAMP as it has a masive market share.

Unkwntech 2008-12-20 02:09:51

To cite my source on the above comment about Apache's market share: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html

Unkwntech 2008-12-20 02:19:28

Answer 2

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Stack is because the components pile up on top of each other

Your Application Presentation
Your Application Controls
Your Application Models
HTTP Server (Apache, IIS, etc.)
Database
Operating System

It's not strictly a stack (not like the OSI protocol stack). But it's approximately a stack.

S.Lott 2008-12-20 00:51:10

Is Apache always part of the stack? :)

J Cooper 2008-12-20 01:36:17

I made it a bit more agnostic....

Unkwntech 2008-12-20 02:17:07

Apache is a web server. IIS is another one. Netscape Enterprise Server was another one. You can also have languages like Lisp which provide their own webservers, either implemented in Lisp or as apache/ISAPI/etc modules.

2008-12-20 02:38:09

Answer 3

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"Stack" is slang used by programmers trying desperately to make the set of tools they use sound cool.

Steven A. Lowe 2008-12-20 04:48:57

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