Comments on: Let the Breakup of Nortel Begin

By: What’s Left of Nortel Today? – GigaOM

What’s Left of Nortel Today? – GigaOM — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:26:44 +0000

[...] 20: It becomes clear that Nortel will sell itself in pieces rather than emerge from bankruptcy as a whole [...]

By: Nortel Won’t Be Coming Back from Bankruptcy

Nortel Won’t Be Coming Back from Bankruptcy — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:06:59 +0000

[...] delivery optimization company, sealed the deal for Nortel’s application delivery assets. It paid $18 million for a business unit that cost Nortel $7 billion back in 2000. [...]

By: Nortel Keeps Market Guessing, Will It Sell or Slim Down?

Nortel Keeps Market Guessing, Will It Sell or Slim Down? — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:23:02 +0000

[...] which filed for bankruptcy in January, may also sell its enterprise business, and it already has signed an agreement to sell its wireless area network optimization business. If Nortel finds willing buyers to help it raise the cash to pay off its $4.5 billion in debts, and [...]

By: Matt Wilson

Matt Wilson — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:21:34 +0000

I personally had terrible experience with Radware enterprise level products. The company is based in Israel and most of their support engineers are having very hard time with speaking proper english. To me this approach sounds more like an online coverage attack and trying to get attention from techies.

By: Nortel to Cut 3,200 More Workers

Nortel to Cut 3,200 More Workers — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:30:45 +0000

[...] telecommunications industry, the company may still end up as a subsidiary of a larger company or be sold off in bits. [...]

By: Gajraj

Gajraj — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:47:24 +0000

Radware’s own market cap is only 110 mil right now. At 55 mil this would be a big bite for their shareholders. And, I guess Nortel is looking for cash… But, I agree with Stiennon – if they grab it and handle it right this could be a big leg-up for Radware. I’ll watch radware valuation curve… up!

By: Stiennon

Stiennon — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:05:40 +0000

Way cool. Radware is exhibiting some smarts here. Alteon also represents Nortel’s security products, a good match with Radware.

-Stiennon

By: timtobe

timtobe — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:18:48 +0000

who cares how it was paid – stockholders still got the screwed from bad management!

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:41:10 +0000

How much of the $7B was paid in inflated Nortel stock versus cash?

By: Screen Sleuth

Screen Sleuth — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:45:32 +0000

$7 billion to $50 million…quite an exchange rate. Boy, now I know why the business world never appealed to me.

By: Alan Wilensky

Alan Wilensky — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:50:32 +0000

The entire sector of XML appliances, application routers, and such, has proven to be such a bust. More of these functions are being moved (or just are) to the general purpose server stack, or to VM slices, etc.

The number of DOA application switch vendors (which were nothing but Linux boxes with a special stack and lostsa ports) is now legend.