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May 29, 2007
Show Us Your TLAs
We have a list today comparing three letter acronyms from 1997 and 2007, it was a concession to one of our correspondents who is getting all nostalgic on a decade of covering European startups.
A look at a couple of articles our reporter published back in 1997, the year that Amazon.com went public in the US and EASDAQ (a wannabe NASDAQ for Europe) and the Neuer Markt in Germany emerged, turned up the following TLAs.
1997 - SOI, GSM, SIM cards, TTS, RAD, EDI/XML
A similar quick search over the past 12 months gave us a list for 2007.
2007 – SOA, UGC, AJAX, ETL , PPV, OLED
Some of the acronyms defined
TTS – text to speech -a buzzwords that Lernout & Hauspie (L&H) rode to bubblicious proportions
SOI – silicon on insulator put chip company SOITEC on the map and is the foundation for its €1.34B market cap today
GSM – the standard for digital cellphones reached a 100 million subscriber milestone in 1997 started to take off (it’s up to 2.5B now)
SIM – smartcards for the GSM market made Gemplus’ first fortune
PPV – photovoltaics not pay per view
UGC – user generated content
ETL – extract, transform, load
SOA – software oriented architecture – a big bucket of a TLA that stands for giving old applications a new life - it's not tied tightly to just any single industry standard or to any one company.
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