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Microsoft/Nortel Alliance Yielding Results |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Tuesday, 17 July 2007 |
It is a year since Microsoft and Nortel announced they would
work together to tackle the VoIP market as a team and according to the
companies' the alliance has already yielded more than 430,000 licenses
for joint solutions.
Though not all have been deployed that's a significant number of licences despite
the two companies apparently spending the year streamlining their
licensing to make it easier for customers to buy and manage joint
solutions.
In the year the duo have also hosted more than 60 road show events in
35 countries, and opened 100 lab and demonstration centers worldwide.
Now they plan to ship new and updated products in the coming months,
including Nortel's UC integrated branch.
"Our relationship with Nortel is an important component of our strategy
for unified communications, and over the past year we've hit
significant milestones that benefit both companies," said Gurdeep Singh
Pall, corporate vice president for the Unified Communications Group at
Microsoft. "In the year ahead, we expect to see even more robust
customer interest around the world based on our joint technology
solutions."
"Nortel's alliance with Microsoft has been a tremendous success for us
and our customers," said Steve Slattery, president of Enterprise
Networks at Nortel. "Our deep collaboration in product development is
providing businesses with better ways to communicate, and our joint
go-to-market activity has already produced impressive results. In
addition, our alliance with Microsoft is opening doors to new customers
for our entire enterprise portfolio and is a key reason for the
accelerated performance of our Enterprise Solutions business year over
year."
More information about the Innovative Communications Alliance is available at http://www.innovativecommunicationsalliance.com.
www.nortel.com
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