RE: Why CBO choose wrong way? offtopic (OT)(possible humor)
- From: "Mark W. Farnham" <mwf@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>, <mgogala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 10:33:03 -0400
PCMCIA actually stands for People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms,
so COTS actually means Completely Obscured Technological System.
punchline: If in doubt, spell it out. If you're sure everyone knows the
acronym, spell it out the first time in a thread anyway. Or don't.
Regards,
mwf
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Subject: Re: Why CBO choose wrong way?
COTS=commercial off the shelf
AKA Packaged app. 3rd party app. full time employment guarantee and so on.
On 5/31/05, Mladen Gogala <mgogala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Jared Still wrote:
>
> >Hi Lex,
> >Interesting.
> >
> >I am dealing with a new version of a COTS package that does
> >that in a login trigger. (sets FIRST_ROWS that is)
> >
> >
> I may be an idiot, but I have to ask: what is a "COTS package"? Yet
> another spinoff of UPS or FedEx?
>
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