- AIX:
Advanced Interactive Executive - IBM's version of Unix.
- COBOL:
COBOL language was developed by the CODASYL Committee (Conference on Data Systems Languages) in 1960. It's then developed by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). The new COBOL includes the object-oriented programming.
COBOL is an acronym that stands for COmmon Business Oriented Language. It is designed for developing business applications. It resembles to
the Assembler language; then it does dot need an operating system nor a compiler.
- CORBA:
It stands for Common Object Request Broker Architecture. Its purpose is to connect platform with software, that is integrate
programs in different languages under a different Operating system. It is an object-oriented distributed computing (as Microsoft's Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM). Instead of DCOM, CORBA was developed by hundreds of corporations in the computing industry known as the Object Management Group (OMG). The Object Request Broker (ORB) implements the CORBA standard, such as the Sun Microsystems ORB included with the Java SDK version 1.2 and greater.
- EJB:
Stands for Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB). This Java technology is the server-side component architecture for the Java 2 Platform and Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) platform. It enables secure and portable applications based on Java technology.
- IBM:
International Business Machines Corporation.
- HP-UX:
Hewlett Packard's Unix version
- JAVA:
JavaBeans
JavaBeans is a reusable software component that can be manipulated visually in a builder tool, in order to build applications.(such as Microsoft's component "list box" used to build forms). Beans can be simple GUI elements, like buttons or complete software like spreadsheets; but most of them are GUI visible representations.
JSP
JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology is the Java lamguage for the Web; like ASP and PHP. To run JSP programs, one needs Tomcat software before before the compilation and the use of a browser. JSP is the Java technology web-based applications that are server- and platform-independent.
- PDF:
Portable Document Format. A PDF file is an electronic facsimile of a printed document.
It is a brand of Adobe.
- PERL:
The Practical Extraction and Report Language. An interpreted language for CGI scripts.
- Port:
One of several rendez-vous points where TCP/IP connections can be made on a
computer. Ports are numbered, with several locations reserved for specific types of network activity, such as
telnet on port 23, ftp on port 21, smtp on port 25, pop on port 109, pop3 on port 110, imap on 143, HTTP traffic on port 80
or USENET news (NNTP) on port 119.
- POSIX:
Short for "Portable Operating System Interface for uniX", POSIX is a set of standards codified by the IEEE
and issued by ANSI and ISO. It establishes a set of guidelines to build operating system in order to allow a certain program to
run on all Unix and POSIX-compliant systems such as Microsoft's Windows NT and IBM's OpenEdition MVS.
- Servlets:
Servlets
As the CGI scripts Java Servlets is the client/server that runs using Java technology. It is not yet mostly used by the web
community (about 20%), it is less memory consumming.
- VMS:
Introduced in 1978 along with its VAX line of minicomputers, VMS (Virtual Memory System) was Digital Equipment Corporation's (DEC)
answer to Unix. VMS was especially popular among academic and research institutions.
VMS, now known as OpenVMS is currently owned by Hewlett-Packard.
- Websphere:
WebSphere is a brand of IBM software products. It is an e-business applications for various computing
platforms using Web technologies.
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