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Appendix D. Acronyms

ACID	Atomic, Consistent, Isolated, Durable
AKA	also known as
ANSI	American National Standards Institute
API	Application Program Interface
CASE	Computer Aided Software Engineering
CD-ROM	Compact Disk Read Only Memory
CIO	Chief Information Officer
CMU	Carnegie Mellon University
COM	Microsoft Component Object Model
CORBA	Common Object Request Broker Architecture
COSE	Common Open Software Environment
COTS	Commercial off-the-shelf
CTO	Chief Technology Officer
DARPA	Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DIN	German National Standards Organization
ECMA	European Computer Manufacturers Association
E-R	Entity-Relationship Modeling
FGDC	Federal Geographic Data Committee
FIPS	Federal Information Processing Standard
FTP	File Transfer Protocol
GOTS	Government off-the-shelf ...