True, Avaya has no pure "softswitch" product. So it would fill a hole for them.
My concern is just that opensource and avaya are not the best of friends. And with SipX being license LGPL they could start pulling all new features in as non-opensource components. Leaving the opensource version to stagnate. But I'm holding out hope yet! -M >>> "Picher, Michael" <mpic...@cmctechgroup.com> 09/15/09 3:10 AM >>> That being said, they really don't have anything positioned like sipXecs. Their solutions in the SMB space are all hardware based solutions. With competitors like Mitel (their 3300 call control is now available on VMWare) and Shoretel (Shoreware Director runs in Windows) in the SME space delivering largely software based solutions that scale much better than hardware solutions, they have to be feeling the heat. Mike -----Original Message----- From: sipx-users-boun...@list.sipfoundry.org [mailto:sipx-users-boun...@list.sipfoundry.org] On Behalf Of Nikolay Kondratyev Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 2:23 AM To: 'Josh Patten'; sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org Subject: Re: [sipx-users] Nortel Enterprise Sale announcement (ScottLawrence) Avaya already has very well positioned and successful PBX products from SMB to large enterprise range. So my opinion is that Avaya is looking for infrastructure products (Ethernet switches first of all). And I think that it's likely that Avaya will throw away the sipX. I hope that this will not happen, but... From the other hand, it depends upon who will pick it up... Let's see what will happen (as Scott says). Nikolay. > -----Original Message----- > From: sipx-users-boun...@list.sipfoundry.org [mailto:sipx-users- > boun...@list.sipfoundry.org] On Behalf Of Josh Patten > Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 1:31 AM > To: sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org > Subject: Re: [sipx-users] Nortel Enterprise Sale announcement > (ScottLawrence) > > I certainly hope it won't be the end of sipX. The way I see it Avaya > could do one of two things: > > 1: Rebrand sipX as one of their own products much like Nortel did for > SCS and leave the open source project as it currently is essentially > keeping the project going as it currently stands. This would be ideal, > but I'm not betting any money on this happening. > > 2: Drop funding and employees for the project and leave it up to the > open source community to continue development efforts. While this might > be detrimental to the project, it would allow the project to continue, > albeit at a much slower pace. > > If I understand correctly it would be impossible to completely close the > project down as the open source community for this project is not > "owned" by anyone in particular. (Correct me if I'm wrong). > > On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 12:26 -0400, Scott Lawrence wrote: > > > > > >> When there's some definitive news, you'll hear it pretty quickly here. > >> > > > > http://www2.nortel.com/go/news_detail.jsp?cat_id=- > 8055&oid=100261422&locale=en-US > > > > > > Nortel Selects Avaya as Successful Bidder for Enterprise > > Solutions Business > > > > September 14, 2009 > > > > * Will sell the assets of the Enterprise Solutions > > Business, and shares of Nortel Government Solutions and > > DiamondWare to Avaya > > * Avaya to Pay US$900 Million in Cash to Nortel, with an > > Additional Pool of US$15 Million Reserved for an > > Employee Retention Program > > * Canadian and U.S. Court Approvals of Sale will be Sought > > at a Joint Hearing on September 15 > > > > What this means for sipXecs remains to be seen... stay tuned. > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > sipx-users mailing list sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org > List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users > Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-users > sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/ _______________________________________________ sipx-users mailing list sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-users sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/ _______________________________________________ sipx-users mailing list sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-users sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/
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