ADO - ActiveX Data Object

ADO stands for ActiveX Data Objects. It is a set of COM (Component Object Model) objects for accessing data source. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActiveX_Data_Objects and http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/ado270/htm/dasdkadooverview.asp?frame=true)

WebDAV (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning)

WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning. It is a set of extension to the HTTP protocol which allows users to collaboratively edit and mange files on remote servers.
(See http://www.webdav.org/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebDAV)

LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - an application protocol for querying and modifying directory services. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Directory_Access_Protocol)

Active Directory is Microsoft implementation of this protocol. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_directory)

OpenLDAP is a open source implementation of LDAP. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenLDAP)

HTML - Hypertext Markup Language

HTML – Hypertext Markup Language – a markup language for the creation of web pages. It provides a means to describe the structure of text-based information in a document. This is done using labels, also know as tags, surrounded by less-than (<) and greater-than (>) signs. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML).

PDF - Portable Document Format

PDF – Portable Document Format – a file format created by Adobe Systems for representing two-dimensional documents in a device independent and display resolution independent fixed-layout document format.

(See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format)