Mitel, Unify, and Amazon

November 19, 2013 by Dave Michels

What a week. It was a week of travel. I spent the week in Japan attending the NEC iExpo. More on that coming soon. The flight from Denver to Tokyo is over 12 hours – quite possibly the longest I’ve...

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Chris Hummel November 20, 2013

Dave, Dave, Dave. Project Ansible offers a native cloud platform, applications and capabilities. Unify was courageous to redeploy resources from a dead end effort toward something truly disruptive and valuable. One Number Service in OpenScape 4000 brings unparalleled UC capabilities to a converged PBX platform. And SDC opens the door for more choice on which networking infrastructure is leveraged. Yes, Unify needs to prove it – but the industry has already spoken with the overwhelmingly positive reaction to Project Ansible that it’s the right vision.

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Neal Shact November 20, 2013

Dave, I agree with your assessment about the potential for Amazon to succeed with WorkSpaces. In addition to being a proven disruptor, Amazon also has a high degree of customer loyalty and shareholders that believe in the company’s long term strategy (and don’t mind short term losses). If Amazon wants a seat at the table of virtual desktop solutions they will find a way to get there

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