Comments on: Nortel to Talk About Avaya Deal

By: dual sim mobile phones

dual sim mobile phones — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:21:46 +0000

nice post

By: GoProto

GoProto — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:36:35 +0000

Hack's counting parking lot spaces…

By: freqmgr

freqmgr — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:40:00 +0000

Excuse me but if those running what is left of Nortel want to save some money….then why do they still have a group labeled as the “Ethics Department”? If it were truly functional there would have been a lot of the ELT and other management team out in the street. Lay the ethics folks off now….and be ehtical about it….same severance package as the others have gotten.

By: less

less — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:32:25 +0000

yeah.

By: less

less — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:31:24 +0000

...according to pay czar Kenneth Feinberg "the risk of employee departures must be minimized because Chrysler Financial has stated it intends to wind down its operations and will have difficulty attracting new employees."

That means that, according to government's take on Cerberus' take, the company needs to keep pay high so it can keep good people so it can close in two years.

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/10/25/report-chrys...

By: The_Deuce

The_Deuce — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:18:53 +0000

yeah ACE is new.. so its gets a pass.. it has only been around for > 3 years and invested a fortune in R&D…. the crazies are running the insane asylum..

By: less

less — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:14:57 +0000

All thats lacking is an earnings restatement. No?

By: The_Deuce

The_Deuce — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:03:24 +0000

You obviously must work on the ACE team… the IVR product in Nortel was multi-vendor since day one. The ACE team came along and spent >100 M to reinvent something that already existed. The ACE team throws a web service around something and thinks they have added business value. The proof is in the pudding. ACE is been around for over 3 years and its generated virtually no revenue.. Tell me you have a crown jewel when you build something that someone actually buys.. demos don't count…

By: less

less — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:58:48 +0000

Aw, now...

In my mind ACE represents one of the crown jewels of Nortel technology.

While initially targeting 1000 users, HSBC plans to expand this ACE application across the globe, a strong testament to the value proposition delivered by Nortel ACE.

To me, the business value of Unified Communications comes when UC is integrated into business processes leveraging vendor-agnostic integration software such as Nortel's ACE. It's all about accelerating these business processes by reducing human latency.

• Multi-vendor environments (Avaya is paying lip service to multi-vendor, but there's no reference to anything but Avaya)

Avaya is just now... On the other hand, Nortel totally...

In contrast, the Nortel Agile Communication Environment (ACE) is ..

Nortel is the Crown Jewel of Avaya.

http://blog.tmcnet.com/the-hyperconnected-enter...

By: techorama

techorama — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:31:52 +0000

Hilarious….and so true. The only apps I saw coming out of ACE were the kind of things that are being sold for 99 cents in the iTunes AppStore. “click here to make a voice call”…..oooooohhhhh…..you mean, like what I can do in Yahoo IM for free?

From what I saw, ACE has made Nortel about a hundred bucks in revenue this year.