Ericsson has sold its enterprise PBX business to Aastra for $102.7 million. Ericsson wants to focus on carriers and service providers. Although the company has said that they will continue to sell enterprise solutions, but only through their carriers and service-provider partners. The deal includes a transfer of some 600 of Ericsson’s employees.
Asterisk, the driving force behind our very Sipcat, has been selected by InfoWorld as the best IP PBX in 2008. The InfoWorld Test Center tests, reviews and identifies the best and most innovative IT products every year. This award represents a major achievement for Open Source in general and Digium and Mark Spencer in particular
The partnership announcements haven’t exactly come to a stop. After recent announcements by Dell and Lenovo, Lotus is lining up to announce its partnership with both Cisco Systems and Nortel Networks. The deals focus on the integration of the Lotus Sametime platform into both Cisco’s and Nortel’s unified communications platforms.
Just yesterday, I reported on Dell and Fonality teaming up to offer VoIP solutions to small businesses. Today, I ran across an article announcing a partnership between PC manufacturer Lenovo and Avaya. While this partnership is not half as interesting as the Dell/Fonality deal, it looks like a sign for things to come in 2008.
Wow, this is an impressive partnership announcement, Dell has picked Fonality as a partner to offer VoIP solutions to small businesses. It comes as a bit of surprise that Dell didn’t go for one of the traditional established vendors, but instead went for a company that offers Asterisk based solutions.
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