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  2. Obsolescence - Wikipedia

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    Technical obsolescence usually occurs when a new product or technology supersedes the old one, and it is preferred to use the new technology instead. Historical examples of new technologies superseding old ones include bronze replacing flint in hand-tools, DVDs replacing videocassettes, and the telephone replacing the telegraph. On a smaller ...

  3. List of obsolete technology - Wikipedia

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    Obsolete technology Replacement Still used for Bathing machine: No longer required due to changing social standards of morality Hourglass: Clock: Tasks where a fixed amount of time can be measured with a low-tech solution: Exposure time tracker in saunas (where electronics might be damaged by the heat or ultraviolet light); retro kitchen timers, board games, other short-term timers.

  4. Digital obsolescence - Wikipedia

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    Bitstream copying (or data backup) is a foundational operation often employed before many other practices, and facilitates establishing the redundancy of multiple storage locations: refreshing is the transportation of unchanging data, frequently between identical or functionally similar storage formats, while migration converts the format or ...

  5. Legacy system - Wikipedia

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    Legacy systems are considered to be potentially problematic by some software engineers for several reasons. [4]If legacy software runs on only antiquated hardware, the cost of maintaining the system may eventually outweigh the cost of replacing both the software and hardware unless some form of emulation or backward compatibility allows the software to run on new hardware.

  6. List of computing and IT abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    COBOL—Common Business-Oriented Language; COM—Component Object Model or communication; CORBA—Common Object Request Broker Architecture; CORS—Cross-origin resource sharing; COTS—Commercial off-the-shelf; CPA—Cell processor architecture; CPAN—Comprehensive Perl Archive Network; CP/M—Control Program/Monitor; CPRI—Common Public ...

  7. Enterprise service bus - Wikipedia

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    An enterprise service bus (ESB) implements a communication system between mutually interacting software applications in a service-oriented architecture (SOA). It represents a software architecture for distributed computing , and is a special variant of the more general client-server model, wherein any application may behave as server or client.

  8. Jargon - Wikipedia

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    An industry word is a specialized kind of technical terminology used in a certain industry. Industry words and phrases are often used in a specific area, and those in that field know and use the terminology. [25] Precise technical terms and their definitions are formally recognized, documented, and taught by educators in the field.

  9. Business communication - Wikipedia

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    Business communication is the act of information being exchanged between two-parties or more for the purpose, functions, goals, or commercial activities of an organization. [1] Communication in business can be internal which is employee-to-superior or peer-to-peer, overall it is organizational communication.