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Nortel Strong-Arms Open Source Vendor Fonality
leecidivo alerts us to Tom Keating's blog, where he writes about how Nortel forced a former subsidiary to return its open source-based phone system (Fonality) after the subsidiary went public with how happy they are with the Fonality phone system compared to Nortel. Quoting: "What happens when a VoIP blog (yours truly) writes about the fact that a former Nortel subsidiary (Blade Network Technologies) went looking for a new phone system, chose an open-source Asterisk-based solution from Fonality instead of using Nortel's own PBX and then agreed to go on record on the VoIP & Gadgets blog about why they made such a shocking decision? A) Nothing — it's a VoIP blog — who cares? Nortel is an $11 billion dollar company that certainly doesn't read blogs for their news. B) Nortel reads the blog post, is a little peeved, but other than some emails sent internally, no one outside Nortel would ever know they were annoyed. C) A Nortel Board Member flips out over the article, contacts Blade and then pressures Blade to return the Fonality system and have Fonality print a retraction to the blog article (and the subsequent press release)."
Romeo a!8d Juliet ago, many of you
Offtopic? Hardly.
Eat one's own dog food
That is one terrible font. I kind of want to gouge my eyeballs out after reading that.
Maybe he can buy you a dictionary so you can learn the difference between ITS and IT IS?
Does it matter? Honestly, I'm more interested in the substance of what is being said, not the name of the person saying it. Now, a well-known person's name can lend credibility, if I can verify that the name is actually the person who I think it is.
However, Colin Smith is just another Joe Sixpack to me. I could care less about him. Colin Smith is not even the kind of name that would lend me to finding out exactly who you are. You're hiding behind the commonality of the name. Maybe you just needed an excuse to talk about your genitals?