Nortel and Microsoft Revisited
Brad had a great post this morning speaking to the reasoning behind the Nortel/Microsoft alliance that was in the news a week or so ago.
Why Nortel Tied Itself to MicrosoftI don't know that all the industry analysts will agree that Nortel is back on the growth track. They've still got troubles a'plenty. But they're a solid company that's pulling out all the stops to succeed and their efforts in unified communications won't be taken lightly by Nortel staff or the marketplace. They've got talent, substance and history. And they bring knowledge of the telecom industry that Microsoft could only gain through a partner.
Nortel Networks is attempting to stem a potentially serious erosion of IP-telephony customers, with company CEO Mike Zafirovski and other senior executives spending plenty of personal time with marquee customers pondering removal of their Nortel IP phones and PBXes in favor of competing products from Cisco, Avaya, and Alcatel.
Zafirovski claims Nortel is back on a growth track, having stanched the loss of customers and gotten out from under a cloud of uncertainty caused by a seemingly endless accounting scandal, multiple earnings restatements, repeated layoffs, decimated employee morale among surviving staff members, and a general malaise that threatened to move the company several steps closer to irrelevance in most of the markets in which it still competes.
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