Figuring on a grab at mysql meant SAMP. Replacing the L with S. Whatever.

by IIS, or we would end up with a LIMP

in more ways than one

I guess since IIS usually runs on Windows, that would probably make it a WIMP...

WIMP is an average desktop, surely.

Windows, IE, Malware & Porn

WIMP => Window, Icon, Menu, Pointer (or somesuch) has been since I was knee high to a grasshopper.

Obviously what we have here is LASP... now maybe if we substitute PHP/Perl/Python for Ruby we'd have LASR. See, evolution of light source, from a lamp to a laser - nice.

-- not that I think Ruby is any real substitution for Perl/PHP

WIMP = Weakly Interacting Massive Particle

as opposed to

MACHO = MAssive Cold Halo Object

two theoretical forms of dark matter.

You've got to hand it to them, these must be the neatest acronyms for two competing theories ever