*ware: Suffixes
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| 3ware | AMCC's products; |
| Alienware | Hardware company; Also see: 54K rpm NCQ disks with SATA interface in 2005; |
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BitWare |
Cheyenne BitWare by Computer Associates International; Telephony software for faxing, telephoning, and others. |
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Bloat-ware |
A software which takes a huge storage-space on user’s hard disk |
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Bridge-ware |
A system(either hardware or software) which can used by different computers |
| CasioWare | Casio's product solutions; Also see: www.casioeducation.com; |
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Censor-ware |
Censor-ware is software; it restricts user to access files, unwanted Internet web sites, work-groups |
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Chalk-ware |
Also known as vaporware |
| Component-ware | Also know as Component Software |
| Compuware | A company; |
| Courseware | Cisco implementing IP IGRP / Courseware Installation by CBT Systems |
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Dribble-ware |
Marketing strategy for updating new versions by newly released drivers, patches, updates, and etc. |
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Fat-ware |
Also known as bloat-ware |
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Firmware |
Micro-coded hardware; i.e. ARC firmware provides hardware information to RISC processor while booting Win2000; Firmware Version = version + date; Also see: microEngineering Labs' *.hex embedded hardware; |
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Freeware |
Freeware is software, however users do not need to purchase, or register |
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Fringe-ware |
Fringe-ware is freeware with less reliability |
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Group-ware |
Software for particular group |
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Hardware |
Any device which can be interrupted; High and low voltages are in either serial or parallel by integrated circuits can be called hardware |
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Intra-ware |
Software for corporate-intranet; May contain: e-mail system, database system, Internet explorers and others |
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Linux-ware |
Linux |
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Live-ware |
Also known as wet-ware |
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Middleware is software. i.e. IBM WebSphere™ Application Server Standard Edition Version 3.5 is middleware between server-based business applications and Extensible Markup Language (XML); See Middle-ware: Middle-ware Functionality |
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Nag-ware |
Computing slang for shareware |
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NetWare |
Novell network system |
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Postcard-ware |
CyberKit v.2.2 by Luc Neijens |
| Powerware | Company; (Power protection (Frequency variation) (Harmonic distortion) (Line noise) (Over voltage) (Power failure) (Power sag) (Power surge) (Switching transient) (Under voltage)); |
| RFID middleware | NEC: RFID tag management software; http://www.nec.com/global/features/index17/index.html; |
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Shareware |
Shareware is software. Users need to purchase only once, and then can copy, duplicate, or share with others |
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Shelf-ware |
Long time unused software |
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Shovel-ware |
CD-ROM contains miscellaneous stuffs – images, video clips, animated clips, clip arts, song waves, and etc. |
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Slack-ware |
Linux; Red Head; v.7.0 |
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Software |
Any program which can be run on either random or static memory to process input/output to interact with human or with other programs |
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Stack-ware |
Apple platform: HyperCard data stack / HyperCard programming; |
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Tape-ware |
Novell tape system |
| Trailware | It is a software, used for marketing. [www.norton.com] |
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UnixWare |
SCO UnixWare 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 7; Operating system; |
| VALUMO-ware | NEC's middleware; www.sw.nec.co.jp/valumoware_e/index.html ; |
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Vaporware |
It is used for marketing strategy; Software to be on-shelf by ad, but never become a product |
| Vmware | Virtually, mainframe machine connectivity between mainframe-platform and Intel platform [www.vmware.com] |
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Wet-ware |
Microsoft standard slang: human brain + hardware + software |
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