Re: [ossig] Java in OSS

[Poh Yang Ming <pohyg@xxxxxxxxx>]

it really dependent on the contacts u r talking on.

u talk about DNA to a biologist and a software
developer. u get different responses.

please do check with the person an the acronym in use.


cheers.

--- Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com> wrote:

> 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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> go to heaven."
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