Is open source really new to the OSS/BSS industry?
Well, ok, no. It depends how you look at it. Many large telcos have had open source policies for many years. British Telecom, for example, had a two-pronged approach to IT platforms (including OSS and BSS platforms) that preferred one commercial stack and one linux-based stack. The benefit being: • They could buy in, and support, open source platforms a bit cheaper than commercial platforms. • They could use Point 1 to drive down the prices charged by their commercial product vendors. Use of open source platforms, as in the operating system and some key components like Apache web server, is pretty well established in the wider IT world. It’s a low risk strategy. Open source telco applications are much rarer. Business critical, 24/7, applications even more so. Many of the big-vendor OSS products were ported to run on Linux a few years ago. Few get open-source-ified above the operating system level. Other open source components, like MySQL databases and jBoss application servers, have no
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