SOFTWARE TERMS
Acronym Definition/comments
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ABM Anyone But Microsoft (term used in purchasing deals)
ALP Advanced Logistics Project (US Military war program)
ActiveX Computer Scripting Language
ActiveX Microsoft scripting Language for executing small programs
AFC Application Foundation Classes - Java Library via Microsoft
AIP Application Instruction Provider
APE Application Performance Explorer - Microsoft use
API Application Program Interface
ASCII American Standard Code Information Interchange
ASP Application Service Provider - usually over Internet or:
ASP Active Service Page - in development of a web page
ATM Adobe Type Manager (image scanning)
BDE Database Engine - Borland
CBL Common Business Library (communications)
CMM Capability Maturity Model (improved quality)
CMMS Computerized Maintenance Management System
CNE Certified Novell engineer
COM Component Object Model
COM+ Component Oriented Middleware ( Microsoft)
CORBA Component (Common)Object Request Broker Architecture
CRM Customer Relationship Management
D2D Developer to Developer commerce etc, applications
DAO Data Access Objects
DCOM Distributed Component Object Model
DCS Distributed Control System
DDE Dynamic Data Exchange
DDL Data Definition Language
DIB Device Independent Bitmap
DLL Dynamic Link Library -(file extension)
DM Design Modeling
DMCA Digital Millennium Copyright Act'98 - protect copyrights
DML Data Manipulation Language
DOE Design of Experiments (statistical programs)
DOS Disk Operating System - an early PC Operating system
DTD Document Type Definition (eg. for XML)
EAI Enterprise Application Integration
EBPP Electronic Billing Presentment and Payment – system program
ECMA European Computer Manufacturers Association
EJB Enterprise Java Beans (Sun Co )
Enum the Enumerator
EOF End of File
ERP Enterprise Resource Planning
EXE Execution File - A computer file extension
FAT File Address Table
FAST Family-oriented Abstraction Specification Translation
GUI Graphical User Interface
IAI Internet Application Integration
IDE Integrated Development Environment
IDL Interface Definition Language
IM Implementation Modeling
INI File configuration extension (for particular system files)
ISAM Indexed Sequential Access Method - for data access
IT Information Technologies
JEDEC Joint Electronic Devices Engineering Council - stds.
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group
KBD Keyboard
KM Knowledge Management
LM LAN manager (Local Area Network) (Microsoft)
LAN Local Area Network
LLF Low Level Formatting
MAPI Messaging Application-Program Interface
MCP Microsoft Certified Professional
MCSD Microsoft Certified Solution Developer
MCSE Microsoft Certified System engineer
MDI Multiple Document Interface
MFC Microsoft Foundation Classes
MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface
MP3 MPEG Layer3. Compressed digital music recording protocol
MRP Manufacturing Resource Planning
MSDN Microsoft Developer Network
MTS Microsoft Transaction Server
NAS Network Attached Storage
ODBC Open Database Connectivity
OLE Object Linking and Embedding
OMG Object Management Group
OOP Object Oriented Programming
ORDBMS Object Relational Database Mgmt.System eg.Modems 56K V.90
OSF Open Software Foundation (superseded)
PCA Principal Component Analysis
PDF Portable Document Format also Public Document Files
PDM Product Data Management
PFM Print Font Management
POST Power-on Self Test
QAT Quality Assurance Testing
QoS Quality of Service
R&D Research and Development
RDBMS Relational Database Management System
RDC Remote Data Control - Microsoft
RDO Remote Data Objects
RM Requirements Modeling
RPC Remote Procedure Calls
RTF Rich Text Format
RTOS Read Time Operating System - for portable computers.
SCL Satellite Command Language PD Special Printer Data
SDI Single Document Interface
SIC Standard Industrial Classification
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol (developing standard)
SOX Scheme for Object-oriented XML
SQL Structured Query Language - database applications eg.updating
SQL Specific Query Language
SRE Software Reliability Engineering
SSL Secure Sockets Layer
STL Standard Template Library in C++ etc.
SVF Simple Vector Format (filename extension)
SYD Back-up System File
TIFF Tagged Image File Format
UML Unified Modeling Language - for uniting Objects by OMG pgms.
UNC Universal Naming Convention
UPC Universal Product Code ie. Bar Code
VB Visual Basic - Microsoft program language
VJS Visual Java Script
VLIW Very Long Instruction Word
VOIP Voice Over Internet Protocol
VxD Virtual Device(x) Driver
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
XML EXtensible Markup Language (tolerant web data exchange)
XSL Extensible Style-sheet Language (convert a Doc to other)
Note: A list of File name Extensions can be found in Microsoft
Windows 9x :-START/SETTINGS/FOLDER/OPTIONS/FILE-TYPES