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- In software usage, a process executing without any specific login and, therefore, available to execute commands at the behest of other processes. In the Linux world, also called a “daemon”. In the early (non-multi-tasking) days of DOS, also referred to as “fork off and die”, which immediately leads to an unfortunate recommendation made to certain annoying personality types. See also SOA.
- In the real world, the performance of work on behalf of an Acquisition Customer, where the work is not necessarily associated with any specific Product (except, perhaps, reports and stuff).