X - Men
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A team of fictional comic superheroes
from Marvel Comics.
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X - Windows
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This is a model of computing based on
Unix. Originally Unix was designed to
work with dumb terminals. X –Windows
was an approach to enable users to have a GUI interface. To enable this the dumb terminals had to
be replaced with X-terminals.
Essentially this is an old school example of what is today known as
thin client.
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X.25
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An old networking standard created
within the Telecoms industry. It is
usually associated with WANs.
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X.400
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A networking standard associated with
email / message handling.
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X.500
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A networking standard associated with
directory services, which are used to manage people and technology resources
over a network.
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XA
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Extended Architecture - One of several
variants on IBM’s MVS operating system. Old school.
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Xbox
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A gaming device created by Microsoft.
Ultimately Microsoft is looking to turn your television into a web access
device, and so is looking beyond the gaming industry.
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Xeon
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Name given to a range of Intel
processors.
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XHTML
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A version of HTML that includes XML.
The combination of these technologies will accelerate the growth of
comparative shopping.
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XML
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eXxtensible Markup Language. This is
an approach to developing data dictionaries. This is important in respect of
systems integration where different systems are more likely to integrate
together if they have the same data definitions for each data item involved.
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XP
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See Windows XP.
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XP
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See Extreme Programming.
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XSL
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EXtensible Stylesheet Language. A web
page development language associated with XML that handles how XML data is
presente dto the user.
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XSLT
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XSL Transformation. This is an
extension of XSL. It enables conversion
(transformation) of an XML web page in one format into another format.
It can be thought of as a mechanism for swapping between stylesheets.
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