Re: [ossig] Java in OSS

[Dinesh Nair <dinesh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 29/08/2004 10:35 Nicholas Adrian Suppiah said the following:
> Sun Microsystems have been been using the term OSS for "Operations Support Systems" and hopefully didnt mislead people. I found nice read at http://www.it-director.com/article.php?articleid=12142

the OSS acronym also means operational support systems as used in the 
telco sector. OSS here are the systems which provide auxilliary and 
business services to the network systems for a telco and include the 
billing systems, the provisioning systems, rating engines, mediation 
engines and the like. the term was in use before 1998 when the OSI 
started using OSS to mean open source software.

in mainstream ICT however, i'd think that today OSS is more synonymous 
with open source software rather than operational support systems.

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