This past month the JCP Executive Committees met in Nice, France, in concert
with the TeleManagement World conference, where the worldwide
telecommunications industry gathered to address technical, operating, and
business issues related to the back office systems that they use to run their
business with their networks and services portfolios. These back office
systems are called Operation Support Systems and Business Support Systems
(OSS/BSS), or OSS for short.
My guest this month is Philippe Lalande, head of the OSS through Java
Initiative at Sun. Philippe created and drove the Java Specification Request
(JSR3) under the JCP, and founded the OSS through Java Initiative, which he
continues to lead today. You'll find it interesting to learn directly from
the guy at the heart of it all how the level of complexity of OSS systems is
driven down by an order of magnitude... (more)