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Technology Stocks : Nortel Networks (NT) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (2208)	3/19/1999 7:37:00 PM
From: marcus brutus	Respond to of 14638

McSweeney's giving credit to House for the Nortel move to using Wintel technology is off the mark by years. When a division called Multimedia Business Applications was formed in 1995, the MBA VP "forced" the Toronto lab to PROVE to him that Windows NT/Intel was NOT ready for enterprise telephony applications. The lab, Unix bigots all at the time, tried and failed. Their attempt to discredit WinNT/Intel actually created many converts ... so much capability right "out of the box" when compared to Unix. The VP then funded the Toronto and Mountain View lads to redesign the next generation products and develop all new messaging (voice, fax, email) and call center applications to the WinNT platform ... years of development. He was beaten about the head and shoulders for the decision by his boss who thought the current state of products were adequate and withstood it for 2 years until the project was too far along to kill. It, what's now termed Symposium, all began long before any of the Nortel exec's taking credit today had a clue about where the market was headed.