However, as we progress into the third phase of GQM, we may be surprised to learn the degree to which seemingly disjoint goals for development governance are grounded in a common measurement model.

Application platforms, often also referred to as computing platforms, are designed from the ground up for connecting two disjoint markets: users and application developers.

Barham's implementation simply looks for relatively short, disjoint sequences of characters in a small set (alphanumeric plus a few others).