Definitions
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- initialism Sarbanes-Oxley Act, officially titled the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002
- initialism School of the Americas, a US Army training facility subsequently officially known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation
- initialism Society of Actuaries, one of the two main professional societies of actuaries in the United States
- initialism Society of Ancients, an international society based in the UK
- initialism State of the art, the highest level of development
- initialism computing, architecture Initialism of
Search-Oriented Architecture . - initialism computing, architecture Initialism of
Service-Oriented Architecture . - initialism computing, networks
Start of Authority , in network computing, a SOA record identifies the authoritative Name Server for a specific DNS database segment - initialism electronics Semiconductor Optical Amplifier, a device that amplifies an optical signal directly
- initialism electronics Safe operating area, the current conditions over which a device can be expected to operate without self-damage
- initialism psychology Stimulus Onset Asynchrony, the time interval between the onset of a first stimulus and the onset of a second stimulus
- initialism transport Standard abbreviation for Soinlahti railway station in Finland.
- initialism transport Standard abbreviation for Stordalen railway station in Sweden.
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Visit soa. org to locate a ride to the vigil and help to make this the year to close the SOA.
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However, given that the major body supporting IT development in the UK has adopted a service-oriented approach (little soa, just to confuse everyone) it is too soon to abandon this model despite the general lack of interest (and funding) in the research and development of a suitable platform for higher education: soa needs SOA.
e-Literate Samuel Naugle 2008
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But if you read the entire article you will find that what Anne is really denouncing is the term SOA and the failed approaches that most ...
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This is very similar to what we saw with the term SOA in the early stages.
MSDN Blogs 2009
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But if you read the entire article you will find that what Anne is really denouncing is the term SOA and the failed approaches that most ...
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But if you read the entire article you will find that what Anne is really denouncing is the term SOA and the failed approaches that most ...
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This is very similar to what we saw with the term SOA in the early stages.
MSDN Blogs 2009
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The term SOA governance tends to evoke feelings of Big Brother controlling one's actions, which, in most cases, will be resisted.
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But if you read the entire article you will find that what Anne is really denouncing is the term SOA and the failed approaches that most ...
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But if you read the entire article you will find that what Anne is really denouncing is the term SOA and the failed approaches that most ...
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