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WAMP usually means the "Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP" stack. So creating a new "web technology" with the same abbreviation is a bit stupid. Your going to have a

WAMP usually means the "Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP" stack. So creating a new "web technology" with the same abbreviation is a bit stupid. Your going to have a bad time getting search working.

mhurron 11y ago
> WAMP usually means the "Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP" stack Ya, but no one in their right mind runs that.
- cbd1984 11y ago
  All the more reason to avoid the acronym, then; the people who are stuck with it need all the help they can get.
cbd1984 11y ago
> WAMP usually means the "Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP" stack. The solution is simple: Wait for everyone to replace MySQL with its non-Oracle clone, MariaDB. See? Easy! Or maybe they'll go the NoSQL route and use MongoDB.
unwind 11y ago
A quick test searching for "WAMP protocol" works just fine (wamp.ws is the #1 result) and isn't too hard to type. Without "protocol" the OP site drops to #4. I did not log out of the Google mothership so perhaps my results are skewed, but I also haven't heard of the WAMP protocol before. :)
Rifu 11y ago
Though I do agree with the general sentiment of your comment, I should point out that the maintainers of this project do address this issue in their FAQ[0]. [0] http://wamp.ws/faq/#naming http://wamp.ws/faq/#naming
- urda 11y ago
  > Because of this potential ambiguity, here is what we recommend for authors/implementors Potential ambiguity? It's nothing but ambiguity! What were they thinking.
- degenerate 11y ago
  Wow. You can't just... use the same acronym and assume everything is hunky dory because you pronounce it differently. It's still the same damn letters! This project should have gone with "WebMP" or the full WAMPWS acronym. By "stealing" an existing, long-running and popular acronym, the maintainers are going to stifle this project no matter how much they try to separate themselves from WAMP. Trick question: is it possible to run WAMP on WAMP?
- sumedh 11y ago
  You know when you have to create a separate section just to explain your name that is the time you realize maybe this was not such a good idea.
jrslv 11y ago
Good point, however I wouldn't consider this stack (Windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP) a huge rival for future in terms of growing number of search engine results.
- powertower 11y ago
  WAMP has been a thing since 2003, with over 12 years of history. It is the predominant Windows PHP development environment and Apache stack - that has millions of users worldwide.
- pluma 11y ago
  Maybe not in the startup world, but because of the popularity of LAMP and the ubiquity of Windows, a lot of people use WAMP (e.g. via XAMPP) as a local development stack. It's important to be aware of our own cognitive biases: while Linux is the de-facto standard on the server side and the startup scene is dominated by MBPs and its variants (with a good helping of Linux again, though often in VMs), this only represents a tiny fraction of developers. Dark Matter Developers are a thing.

WAMP usually means the "Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP" stack. So creating a new "web technology" with the same abbreviation is a bit stupid. Your going to have a bad time getting search working.

mhurron 11y ago

> WAMP usually means the "Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP" stack Ya, but no one in their right mind runs that.

cbd1984 11y ago
All the more reason to avoid the acronym, then; the people who are stuck with it need all the help they can get.

cbd1984 11y ago

> WAMP usually means the "Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP" stack. The solution is simple: Wait for everyone to replace MySQL with its non-Oracle clone, MariaDB. See? Easy! Or maybe they'll go the NoSQL route and use MongoDB.

unwind 11y ago

A quick test searching for "WAMP protocol" works just fine (wamp.ws is the #1 result) and isn't too hard to type. Without "protocol" the OP site drops to #4. I did not log out of the Google mothership so perhaps my results are skewed, but I also haven't heard of the WAMP protocol before. :)

Rifu 11y ago

Though I do agree with the general sentiment of your comment, I should point out that the maintainers of this project do address this issue in their FAQ[0]. [0] http://wamp.ws/faq/#naming http://wamp.ws/faq/#naming

urda 11y ago
> Because of this potential ambiguity, here is what we recommend for authors/implementors Potential ambiguity? It's nothing but ambiguity! What were they thinking.
degenerate 11y ago
Wow. You can't just... use the same acronym and assume everything is hunky dory because you pronounce it differently. It's still the same damn letters! This project should have gone with "WebMP" or the full WAMPWS acronym. By "stealing" an existing, long-running and popular acronym, the maintainers are going to stifle this project no matter how much they try to separate themselves from WAMP. Trick question: is it possible to run WAMP on WAMP?
sumedh 11y ago
You know when you have to create a separate section just to explain your name that is the time you realize maybe this was not such a good idea.

jrslv 11y ago

Good point, however I wouldn't consider this stack (Windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP) a huge rival for future in terms of growing number of search engine results.

powertower 11y ago
WAMP has been a thing since 2003, with over 12 years of history. It is the predominant Windows PHP development environment and Apache stack - that has millions of users worldwide.
pluma 11y ago
Maybe not in the startup world, but because of the popularity of LAMP and the ubiquity of Windows, a lot of people use WAMP (e.g. via XAMPP) as a local development stack. It's important to be aware of our own cognitive biases: while Linux is the de-facto standard on the server side and the startup scene is dominated by MBPs and its variants (with a good helping of Linux again, though often in VMs), this only represents a tiny fraction of developers. Dark Matter Developers are a thing.