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International Business Machines
Industry: Computer
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Sometimes referred to as “Big Blue” IBM is a multinational corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York. It manufactures computer hardware and software and provides information technology and services.
A software application that acts as a containing environment for another software application. For example, a servlet engine is a hosting application for a servlet.
Industry:Software
A symbol representing an operation to be performed on two data items, arrays, or expressions. See also unary operator.
Industry:Software
A software architecture from DEC and Microsoft, allowing interoperation between ObjectBroker and OLE (Object Linking and Embedding). Microsoft later evolved COM into DCOM.
Industry:Software
A symbol space that defines the scope of uniqueness of the names of resources defined within it. The resources are message flows, ESQL files, and mapping files.
Industry:Software
A series of characters or function keys assigned to a single function key to be used instead of typing the sequence each time.
Industry:Software
A software component that detects entities or units of information in a text document, such as product numbers, based on regular expressions that describe the exact patterns that are searched in the document text. If one of the regular expressions matches parts of the document text, the regular expression annotator creates the corresponding annotations that cover the match or part of it. These annotated expressions are then stored, either in the enterprise search index using an index mapping file, or a JDBC-capable database using a database mapping file.
Industry:Software
A symbol that is used to enclose an SQL string constant. The SQL string delimiter is the apostrophe (') except in COBOL applications, where the user assigns either a quotation mark (") or an apostrophe (').
Industry:Software
A series of connected forms that feed continuously through a printing device. The connexion between the forms is perforated so that the user can tear them apart. Before printing, the forms are folded in a stack, with the folds along the perforations. See also cut-sheet paper.
Industry:Software
A software component that performs specific linguistic analysis tasks and produces and records annotations. An annotator is the analysis logic component in an analysis engine.
Industry:Software
A symbol used to represent a mathematical operation, such as + or -, used to indicate addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, or exponentiation.
Industry:Software
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