Avaya wins bid for Nortel

[jimbojimbo]

Okay, I'll be the first to throw a punch. Avaya seems to have won the bid for Nortel ($900 Million).

Now if you re-use the "L" you can spell "Tylenol".

 

[dulfo666]

Not quite the same interest here as in the Nortel forums.

 

[wildcard100001]

I'm wondering why buy a sinking ship?

They should have used that money to reduce the cost of their equipment and services..... It's hard going quote to quote against other PBX players in the "just dial tone" environment.

Wildcard

 

[uzumaki]

They want to totally kill the product, thats for sure. Marketing stragy probably.

 

[9mmgeek]

It is an old strategy. They are buying an expanded customer base. As Nortel users upgrade they have a better chance of moving them to Avaya.

 

[xtract]

You will not spend almost a Billion Dollar just to kill the product or competetion , as there is Cisco might benefit on that move as well, and they cannot be assured that the current customer base will be intact

 

[Mitch672]

AVAYA is owned by a bunch of bean counters, otherwise know as a "Venture Capital" firm (Silver Lake Partners). You can bet then have done extensive financial modeling, and must have come to the conclusion that this was worthwhile, or they would not have done it. Nortel is a dead product line, however, the customers are still going to have to move forward, and they are more likely to do that with the people that have been supporting them (nortel techs), and they will now be recomending AVAYA equipment, most likely. funny how who funds your paycheck tends to influence your recomendations....



Mitch

AVAYA Certified Expert

 

[randyb19]

Also, remember that Avaya now has Aura and there has been a heavy push (at least in my area) to bridge the gap using their new product. Every vendor I know has sent me invites for Aura discussions.

I wonder if I wish hard enough there will be a huge SEC scandal with Cicso. Then the product of choice would be obvious and less stressful.

I can dream!

 

[xtract]

That's right Randy, i read that Aura and thats the best path for migration, but AVAYA buying Nortel is good for all Engineers, imagine in the near future Nortel users needs to replace their system, Nortel install base is Huge, Govt agencies, hospitals, banks, Media Companies its a big oppurtunity for the engineers to install/upgrade and Maintain to "Official AVAYA product" i hope that these customers still loyal with Nortel/AVAYA.

 

[uzumaki]

I agree... good pay check for every experienced avaya engineers and all those aspiring ones. God Bless us all

 

[JayNEC]

Just because I haven't seen this posted yet:
Nortel Wins Court Approval to Sell Unit to Avaya

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a8nEX189PPLo