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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.
 

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