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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>> On Jan 14, 9:11 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>>>> Nortel Files for Bankruptcy, Victim of Falling Sales (Update5)
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>>>> | Nortel Networks Corp., North America’s biggest maker of telephone
>>>> | equipment, filed for bankruptcy protection in the U.S., a victim of
>>>> | the global credit crunch and declining sales.
>>> http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=a8E1VQ1yRq8k&refe...
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>>> I wouldn't call Nortel a "Microsoft Buddy". Their switches and
>>> routers were powered by Linux.
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> Actually, they've been slowly pulling away from Microsoft -- at least on the
> phone side -- but they were already in the death spiral. The economy hasn't
> been helping any of the telecom equipment makers. Nobody is buying new
> equipment right now.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_ioTYMCHn2M
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I saw another more recent one (about a week ago).
> True story. Our office serviced Nortel switches (I'm a Nortel tech). Our
> main competition was Avaya (or, rather, Lucent at that time). We were both
> trying to get the same big account. Here's how we lost it.
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> Nortel's Option switches have run on UNIX for a long, long time -- almost
> from the beginning. (Originally they were machine coded.) Their peripherals
> used to run on UNIX (Wind River) but, when Microsoft "invested" money into
> Nortel they started going to the Microsoft for voice mail, ACD (call
> center) and other peripherals. AT&T/Lucent/Avaya stuck with UNIX.
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> So how did we lose the sale? The Avaya sale's lady (who came to work for us,
> told us the story... In her pitch she just said the following
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> "Both Nortel and Lucent switches run on UNIX. Both are solid. Their ACD
> software ("Symposium" at the time) runs on Windows our Call Center runs on
> UNIX. Which is more reliable, your phone switches, which run on UNIX or
> your computers, which run on Windows?"
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> We lost the sale on that one point.
It's interesting that Nortel considered moving all staff to GNU/Linux (on the
desktop). That was in 2007.
Since then, Nortel has appeared in the headlines (inc. press release) with
Microsoft quite a lot. My conviction was based on the fact that they had
become more reliant on Microsoft (and vice versa).
Is /any/ telecom equipment maker relying on Microsoft or Apple for
appliances/routers/other servers? I mean, other than Microsoft with Unified
Comms Server (which seems to a DoA dud)?
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~~ Best of wishes
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