The document provides an introduction to installing and using WAMP (Windows + Apache + MySQL + PHP) as a local development environment. It discusses installing WAMP and using its features like PHPMyAdmin. It also covers migrating a website from Microsoft SQL Server to the WAMP stack, including changing data definitions and queries to be compatible with MySQL. The key applications that would be affected by the migration are Perl for replication, PHP, and Tomcat. Overall, the document presents WAMP as an easy-to-install free option for local PHP and database development.