NTbeliever

Nortel News: Rethinking Bay Networks Acquisition, Delisting Threat

I don't think the Bay acquisition was the big mistake, or necessarily a mistake at all. If not for that acquisition, who else would be able to compete full-on with Cisco in the enterprise space today? I also don't buy some of the so-called expert comments about being Nortel being slow to realize that customers were buying IP. I looked at the same market adoption forecast charts for 6 years in a row, with the big incline and shift over to IP being handily moved out to the right in each updated version. Most, many, some customers were not buying it for years after the experts said the crossover had arrived...because plainly it just didn't make sense for them. Whatever the outcome with Nortel, I credit them for enabling a rational evolution to VoIP...and for that we can thank their so-called failed merger of a voice and data company. Left in Cisco's hands we'd be re-booting to dial 911. Nortel has made some bad decisions...financiall... structurally, and competitively, but they have always led in innovation and gone to extreme lengths to serve customer's needs.