On Tue, 2009-07-21, Scott Lawrence wrote:
> > When there's some definitive news, you'll hear it pretty quickly here.
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 13:09 -0400, Scott Lawrence wrote:
> Nortel Selects Avaya as Successful Bidder for Enterprise
> Solutions Business
I'm told that this transaction is completing on schedule today, and want
to update the sipXecs community with what we know.
First - the entire sipXecs development team have been offered positions
with Avaya. This was not true of all Nortel teams, and that speaks well
for the quality of this group of people and the value that Avaya decided
that we bring.
All but 2 of the team have accepted those offers, and so many of our
email addresses will change to avaya.com next week (assuming the IT
transition goes as planned... :-) ). The remaining two people decided
that this was a good time to make changes they'd been contemplating for
some time, and did not take those offers - I'll leave any comment on
what's next for each to them, but I'd like to take a moment to recognize
and thank them - they are:
Damian Krzeminski, who has lead sipXconfig development for
several years now. Early in his tenure with the project, Damian
was the driving force behind a massive restructuring of
sipXconfig. He's lead the most responsive team of management
application developers that I've ever worked with, and his
commitment to open source and agile development has been an
example to the entire project.
Andy "Woof" Spitzer, has been our go-to guy on so many things
its hard to list them. He revolutionized the media applications
of sipXecs and is leaving even before his crowning achievement -
the new voicemail system - is released, but it's in the
development version and is much more robust, scalable, and
extensible than the old one.
Both of them will be sorely missed (while they won't be getting paid by
Avaya to do this any more, we probably have not heard the last from
either of them).
Details of what Avaya has planned are in short supply, but the short
form of the news of the day is that the project continues as before -
look for the 4.2 release early next year and more after that.
The tag line that Avaya is using about this merger is:
We're combining our expertise to provide the simplest, most
advanced open standards-based communications system in the
world.
I'm happy with that as a sipXecs mission statement...
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