Glossary

CPAD: Cross-Plaform Application Development, a solution to enable software application developement easily for man-made imcompatiable different operating systems. Java,OpenStep and GNUstep are three example solutions.

CPAM: Cross-Platform Application Management, a solution to enable easy and consistent application management. TWW's HPMS is one of the solutions.

PMS: Package Management System. Examples: RPM,MSI,dpkg,inst,lpp,portage,installsield,HP SD-UX ...

HPMS: Hyper Package Management System. A PMS above different PMSs and shield package developer from local PMS to be able to consistently create and maintain software packages.