IT professionals adore acronyms and shorthand. That's one of the reasons why normal people think IT pros are speaking a foreign language when they talk amongst themselves. If you want to keep up with trends in IT management for 2008, familiarize yourself with this list of hot acronyms that your IT pros are talking about.

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• BPM
• CMDB
• BI
• MDM
• TCO
• SOA and
  
• ITIL

at http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/hiner/?p=591 .