You got Nortel CPE for a dime and had the world in front you and customers never felt safe and you started telling customers what to do instead of listening to them. You ran the CC intellect off. People that had carried your products to customer for 25 plus years and you ran them off not being able to leave your old products and actually move forward with new technology you got from Nortel for a steal. The AACC line faltered as your reps kept selling the old stuff and not even trying to move forward except on the end points. If Microsoft takes the AACC and carries it forward. You have taken two great technology companies and driven them into the ground by not moving forward. You took ATT intellect and ripped it apart, took Nortel and threw it to the dogs by not selling new. Lucent who knows what to say. Build those golden parachutes and start baling out the plane. Call Mike Z if you need help on how to spend the money you guys have tucked away
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For real ? What do you think Oceana is ? Apart from a cloud based CC that developed by the old Nortel ICCM/Symposium/NGCC/AACC (Avaya Blue) team. The CC Elite (Avaya Red CC) team had was a pathetic architectural evolution roadmap called Merlot. It was simply a rewrite of Elite to move it off CM and add multi-channel (which AACC already had by then). Absolutely nothing revolutionary and not even evolutionary. No wonder Avaya decided to buy a modern CC instead of rewrite their current one. True, AACC didn't scale to the extent of Elite at the time, but that's not why the sales team dropped the ball. They were just too clueless to sell it and understand its roadmap.
Actually, the Nortel Enterprise acquisition is what doomed Avaya. 100% product overlap with no strategic vision on how to evolve into cloud. Having worked there (at first in Enterprise and then in Carrier), I can tell you that the Enterprise technology was incredibly out of date and overly complicated. All of the decent, next-generation SIP-based cloud product was in the carrier division. By 2008, cloud was already the obvious future, yet Avaya doubled down on CPE with this acquisition. Biggest strategic blunder in the company's history. Nortel Enterprise is the dead albatross that dragged Avaya into oblivion.
i did remain... (typo)
i would strongly disagree with you as far networking is concern
it is remain into Nortel's legacy people