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Incorporated in 1994, providing consulting services in the New York Metro area in communications.technologies - security, networking, systems architecture, design, implementation, certification and deployment
 


 In this glossary you will find definitions of some of the terms used on this website and by IT professionals generally. It also partially represents the ApogeeCT knowledge base.
 


Portal

An end-user configurable web based interface to corporate resources (infrastructure, products)



Solaris

Sun's version of Unix SVR4.2 runs on Sparc and, until version 10, on Intel.

B2B

Business to Business



Linux

Linus Torlvald's Unix. Runs on almost anything

B2C

Business to Consumer



VAX

Venerable Digital Equipment 32 bit platform.

B2E

Business to Employee



VMS

Venerable Digital Equipment operating system

OO

Object Oriented



Sun-ONE

Sun's Open Network Environment for Web Services

OOA

Object Oriented Architecture



J2EE

Java 2 Enterprise Edition

OOD

Object Oriented Design



J2ME

Java 2 Mobile Edition

OOP

Object Oriented Prgramming



JMS

Java 2 Messaging Standard

Java

An OO base language promulgated by Sun Microsystems



RM-ODP

Reference Model for Open Distributed Processing (see also IEEE 1471)

SETL

Set Oriented Language promulgated by NYU



Gnu

Gnu's not unix

001/Axes

Graphical OO modelling language that generates systems



UN/EDIFACT

United Nations Directories for Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport

C

The language that came after B



OASIS

Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (part of UN/EDIFACT). resp. for ebXML.

COBOL

COmmon Business Oriented Language



ISO

International Standards Organization

FORTRAN

FORmulaTRANslator



ITU

Intenational Telecommunications Union

CHILL

CCITT High Level Language (similar to ADA)



ANSI

American National Standards Institute

XML

eXtensible Markup Language - a meta language



ETSI

European Telecommunications Standards Institute

ebXML

Electronic Business using eXtensible Markup Language



NIST

National Institute of Standards and Technology

fixML

FIX Markup Language used for electronic derivatives trading



DNS

Domain Name Services

HTML

HyperText Markup Language - this site is written in HTML



OSI

Open System Interconnection

JavaScript

A client-side extension to HTML to allow web pages to be interactive



CMM

Capability Maturity Model (Software, Security, Systems)

JSP

Java Server Pages - a server-side extension to HTML to allow web pages to be interactive



SNMP

Simplified Network Management Protocol

AWK

awk - pattern scanning and processing language



SMTP

Simplified Mail Transport Protocol

PERL

Practical Extraction and Report Language



IPSec

IP Security

DCL

Digital Equipment Command Language



SSL

Secure Sockets Layer

CSH/SH/KSH/

BASH - all kinds of scrtpting tools (SHells)



TLS

Transport Layer Security

DXL

AutoCad prgramming language



SSO

Single Sign On

LDAP

Lightweight Database Access Protocol



Kerberos

A standard for implementing SSO

Decnet

Venerable Digital Equipment protocol stack



PKI

Public Key Infrastructure

IP

Internet Protocol



VPN

Virtual Private Network

TCP/IP

Transport Control Protocol over IP



OODBMS

Object Oriented DataBase Management System

UDP

User Datagram Protocol over IP



ASN.1

Standard NotationAbstract Syntax Notation number One

TIB/RV

The Information Bus/Rendevous protocol



The Quagmire

The mess of quality standards leading to ISO 15502

LAN

Local Area Network



HTTP

HyperText Transport Protocol

MAN

Metropolitan Area Network



HTTPS

Secure HTTP

WAN

Wide Area Network



Wintel

Windows/Intel platform

WEP

Wireless Equivalency Protocol



ODMA

Open Document Management Architecture

PAN

Personal Area Network



IETF

Internet Engineering Task Force

Bluetooth

Protocol used to implement PANs



JNDI

Java Naming

IEEE 802x

Various protocols to implement fixed and wireless LANs



JNI

Java Native Interface

ATM

Asynchronous Transfer Mode



JAX

Java and XML

Frame Relay

Another way of allocating bandwidth on a wire



JXTA

Java Peer to Peer networking

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