| ACRONYM | Définition |
| ACK | Acknoledge |
| ACL | Access Control List. Liste contenant les droits associés aux utilisateurs |
| Active Directory | Service d'annuaire proposé par Microsoft |
| ActiveX | Composants OLE 32; |
| ADA | langage structuré |
| ADO | Active Data Objects - API Microsoft. ADO.Net. ADOX |
| ADO.Net | Active Data Objects .NET - Version .NET d'ADO. Supportant XML |
| AFNIC | Association Française pour le Nommage Internet en Coopération |
| AFNOR | Association Française de NORmalisation |
| AFUL | Association Française des Utilisateurs de Linux et des logiciels libres |
| AFUU | Association Française des Utilisateurs de Unix |
| AGL | Atelier de Génie Logiciel |
| Aironet | Marque de Cisco pour ses produits à la norme 802.11b |
| AirPort | Marque Apple pour les réseaux 802.11b. |
| Apache | Serveur Web OpenSource |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| Applet | Application java exécuté dans un navigateur |
| Appliquette | Petite application indépendante du matériel et du logiciel utilisés |
| ARP | Address Resolution Protocol |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchang |
| ASP | Active Server Pages , Application Service Provider |
| ATL | Active Template Library |
| AWT | Abstract Windowing Toolkit |
| B2B | Business To Business |
| B2B2C | Business to Business to Consumer |
| B2C | Business to Consumer |
| backdoor | Point d'entrée non doculmenté à un programme |
| BackOffice | Application d'administration vs FrontOffice |
| Banner | Bannière publicitaire |
| BAPI | Business Application Programming Interface |
| BASIC | Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code |
| Bastion | Firewall au sens général |
| baud | Unité de rapidité de modulation |
| BDE | Borland Database Engine |
| BIND | Berkeley Internet Name Daemon |
| BIOS | Basic Input Output System |
| Biztalk | Framework EDI XML Microsoft |
| Blog | weblog journal personnel |
| BLR | Boucle Locale Radio |
| Bluetooth | Réseau sans fil 1Mb/s |
| BO | Business Objects |
| BOF | Beginning Of File |
| Bookmark | Liste de signet ou favoris |
| Boot | Démarrage d'une machine |
| BPML | Business Process Management Language |
| Brick and mortar | Entreprise de commerce traditionnelle |
| bricks and clicks | variante de bricks and mortar |
| Bridge | Pont (réseaux) |
| Broadband | large bande |
| broadcasting | Diffusion |
| BTP | Business Transaction Protocol protocole XML |
| Bus | Topologie réseau |
| Business model | Modèle économique |
| C# | Langage Objet développé par Microsoft prononcé "charpe" |
| C++ | Langage orienté objet |
| C2C | Consumer to consumer |
| Carrier | Porteuse opérateur délivrant le signal |
| CCITT | Consultative Committee on International Telegraph and Telephone |
| CERT | Computer Emergency Response Team |
| CGI | Common Gateway Interface |
| CHAT | Messagerie en temps réel |
| cheval de Troie | Programme effectuant un traitement à votre insue |
| CHTML | Compact HTML |
| CIGREF | Club Informatique des Grandes Entreprises Françaises - |
| CLUSIF | CLUb de la Sécurité Informatique Français |
| CNIL | Commission Nationale Informatique et Libertés |
| COM | Component Object Model |
| Cookie | Petit fichier texte stocké sur le poste client par le browser |
| CORBA | Common ORB Architecture |
| CPM | Coût par Mille |
| CRM | Customer Relationship Management |
| Cross-selling | Proposer un produit lié à un autre |
| Cryptologie | Techniques de chiffrement |
| CSP | Cryptography Service Provider / compound service provider |
| CSS | Cascading Style Sheets (feuille de style) |
| CTI | Couplage Téléphonie-Informatique |
| CTO | Chief Technology Officer |
| Daemon | démon |
| DAO | Data Access Object |
| DAP | Directory Access Protocol |
| DAT | Digital Audio Tape |
| datamart | Extrait d'un entrepôt de données |
| datamining | Extraction de données selon de multiples protocoles |
| Datawarehouse DWH | Entrepôt de données |
| DBMS | DataBase Management System |
| DCE | Distributed Computing Environment |
| DCOM | Distributed COM |
| DDE | Dynamic Data Exchange |
| DDNS | Dynamic DNS |
| DDoS | Distributed Denial of Service |
| DEA | Data Encryption Algorithm |
| Dégroupage | Fin du monopole d'un opérateur |
| DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
| DHTML | Dynamic HTML |
| DLL | Dynamically Loaded Library |
| DMA | Direct Memory Access |
| DML | Data Manipulation Language |
| DMS | Document Management System |
| DNS | Domain Name System |
| DNSSEC | Domain Name System Security |
| DoD | Department of Defense |
| DOM | Document Object Model |
| Domaine | adresse web |
| DoS | Denial of Service |
| DRAM | Dynamic Random Access Memory |
| DS | Directory Services |
| DSI | Direction des Systèmes d'Information |
| DSML | Directory Services Markup Language |
| DTD | Document Type Definition |
| DTML | Document Template Markup Language |
| EAI | Enterprise Application Integration |
| EAN | European Article Numbering |
| EAO | Enseignement Assisté par Ordinateur |
| EAR | Enterprise deployment Archive (java) |
| EBCDIC | Extended Binary Coded Decimal Information Code |
| ebXML | e-business eXtensible Markup Language |
| ECIX | Electronic Component Information Exchange |
| ECMAScript | Version normalisée ECMA de Javascript |
| EDI | Electronic Data Interchange |
| EFS | Encrypting File System |
| EJB | Enterprise Java Beans |
| EMV | Europay Mastercard Visa |
| encryption | Chiffrement |
| EOF | End of File |
| EOIP | Ethernet Over IP |
| EOT | Embedded Open Type |
| EPO | European Patent Office |
| EPP | Enhanced Parallel Port |
| ERP | Enterprise Resource Planning |
| ESA | Enterprise Systems Architecture |
| ESD | Electronic Software Distribution |
| ESMTP | Extended SMTP |
| Etebac | normes pour les communications avec les banques |
| Etoile | Topologie réseau |
| ETTD | Equipement Terminal de Traitement de Données |
| EVM | Embedded Virtual Machine JVM MVJ |
| eWS | Embedded Web Server |
| FAH | Fournisseur d'applications hébergées |
| FAI | Fournisseur d'Accès à Internet |
| FAT | File Allocation Table |
| FCx | Fibre Channel |
| FIFO | First In First Out |
| Firewall | Pare feu |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| GED | Gestion Electronique de Documents |
| GIS | Global Internet eXchange |
| GPL | General Public License |
| GPRS | General Packet Radio Service |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| GSBD | Système de Gestion de Bases de Données |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface |
| HTML | HyperText Markup Language |
| HTTP | HyperText Transfer Protocol |
| ICA | Intelligent Console Architecture protocole Citrix |
| ICMP | Internet Control Message Protocol |
| ICP | Internet Caching Protocol |
| IDL | Interface Definition Language |
| IGRP | Integrated Routing Protocol |
| IIOP | Internet Inter Orb Protocol |
| IntServ | Integrated Services |
| Ipsec | IP Security |
| ISAPI | Internet Server API |
| ISDN | Integrated Services Data Network |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider |
| IVR | Interactive Voice Response |
| J2EE | Java2 Enterprise Edition |
| J2ME | Java 2 Micro Edition |
| J2SE | Java(TM) 2 Platform, Standard Edition |
| JAAS | Java Authentication and Authorization Service |
| JAXB | Java API for XML Binding |
| JAXM | Java API for XML Messaging |
| JAXP | Java API for XML Parsing |
| JBCL | Java Beans Component Library |
| JCA | J2EE Connector Architecture |
| JCE | Java Cryptography Extension |
| JDBC | Java DataBase Connectivity |
| JDK | Java Development Kit |
| JDO | Java Data Objects |
| JINI | Protocole JAVA configuration matériels |
| JMS | Java Messaging Service |
| JNDI | Java Native Directory Interface |
| JSP | Java Server Pages |
| JSSS | JavaScript Style Sheets |
| JTS | Java Transaction Service |
| KM | Knowledge Management |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| LDAP | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
| LIFO | Last In First Out |
| Log | Journal |
| LS | Liaison spécialisée |
| MAPI | Mail Access Programming Interface |
| MATHML | Mathematical Markup Language |
| MIB | Management Information Base |
| MIDL | Microsoft Interface Definition Language |
| MIME | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions |
| MIMO | Multile Input Multiple Output |
| MIS | Management Information Systems |
| MMDS | Multipoint Multichannel Distribution Service |
| MMIO | MultiMedia Input Output |
| MMS | Multimedia Messaging Service |
| MOLAP | Multidimensional On-Line Analytical Processing |
| MOM | Message Oriented Middleware |
| MPLS | Multi-Protocol Label Switching |
| MSIL | MicroSoft Intermediate Language |
| MTP | Microsoft Transaction Server |
| MVC | Model - View - Controller |
| MX | Mail eXchange |
| NAP | Network Access Point |
| NAS | Network Attached Storage |
| NAT | Network Address Translation |
| NewsML | News Markup Language |
| NGN | Next Generation Network |
| NIS | Network Information Service |
| NTIC | Nouvelles Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication |
| NTT | Nippon Telegraph and Telephone |
| OAL | OEM Abstraction Layer |
| Oasis | Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards |
| OCX | OLE Custom Control |
| ODBC | Open DataBase Connectivity |
| OLAP | OnLine Analytical Processing |
| OLE | Object Linking and Embedding |
| OLTP | On-Line Transaction Processing |
| OMG | Object Management Group |
| OMT | Object Modeling Technique |
| OOB | Out Of Band |
| OpenGL | Open Graphics Library |
| OQL | Object Query Language |
| ORB | Object Request Broker |
| OSI | Open Systems Interconnection |
| OTA | Over The Air |
| OWA | Outlook Web Access |
| P2P | Peer to Peer |
| PAP | Pages vues avec Publicité |
| PAT | Port Address Translation |
| PKI | Public Key Infrastructure |
| PNG | Portable Network Graphics |
| PnP | Plug and Play |
| POO | Programmation Orientée Objets |
| POP | Post Office Protocol |
| POS | Packet over SONET/SDH |
| PPP | Point to Point Protocol |
| PPTP | Point to Point Tunneling Protocol |
| RAD | Rapid Application Development |
| RARP | Reverse ARP |
| RAS | Remote Access Server |
| RDDL | Resource Directory Description Language |
| RFC | Request For Comments |
| RIP | Routing Information Protocol |
| RNIS | Réseau Numérique à Intégration de Services |
| ROI | Return On Investment |
| RPC | Remote Procedure Call |
| RSA | Rivest, Shamir, Adleman |
| RSVP | Resource reSerVation Protocol |
| RTF | Rich Text Format |
| RTP | Real-Time Protocol |
| RTSP | Real Time Streaming Protocol |
| SALT | Speech Application Tags Language |
| SAN | Storage Area Network |
| SAX | Simple API for XML |
| SCSI | Small Computer System Interface |
| SDK | Software Development Kit |
| SDL | Services Description Language |
| SGML | Standard Generalized Markup Language |
| SID | Session Id |
| SIG | Système d'Informations Géographiques |
| SLIP | Serial Line IP |
| SMDL | Standard Music Description Language |
| SMIL | Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language |
| SMS | Short Message Service |
| SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol |
| SNTP | Simple Network Time Protocol |
| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer |
| SWIFT | Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications |
| SYNCML | Synchronization Markup Language |
| TCO | Total Cost of Ownership |
| TCP | Transmission Control Protocol |
| TLS | Transport Layer Security |
| TNT | Télévision Numérique Terrestre |
| UDDI | Universal Description Discovery and Integration |
| UML | Unified Modeling Language |
| UMTS | Universal Mobile Telecommunications System |
| URI | Universal Resource Identifier |
| URL | Universal Resource Locator |
| UWB | Ultra Wide band |
| UXF | UML eXchange Format |
| VAP | Value-Added Partner |
| VAR | Value-Added Reseller |
| VLAN | Virtual LAN |
| VML | Vector Markup Language |
| VoIP | Voice over IP |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| W3C | World Wide Web Consortium |
| WAE | Wireless Application Environment |
| WAP | Wireless Application Protocol |
| WAR | Web Archive |
| WBXML | WAP Binary XML content format |
| WCMP | Wireless Control Message Protocol |
| WDP | Wireless Data Protocol |
| WEP | Wired Equivalent Privacy |
| Wi-Fi | Wireless Fidelity |
| WML | Wireless Markup Language |
| WSDL | Web Services Description Language |
| WSOA | Web Services Oriented Architecture |
| WSP | Wireless Session Protocol |
| WTA | Wireless Telephony Application |
| WTLS | Wireless Transport Layer Security |
| WTP | Wireless Transaction Protocol |
| WWW | World Wide Web |
| WYSIWYG | What You See Is What You Get |
| XHTML | XML HTML |
| XSD | XML Schema Definition |
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