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Friday 16 January 2009, 6:38 PM
Open source router firm apologises to Nortel
It's a joke, and it's in poor taste, if you're a Nortel employee, but you have to admire open source router company Vyatta's readiness to take the responsibility (and the free publicity).
"We didn’t mean to do it… you’ve got to believe us," said Kelly Herrell, CEO of Vyatta, in a press release apologising to Nortel after the network giant filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. "No one is more shocked than we are. Even my mother is upset."
More seriously, Dave Roberts, a former enterprise marketing vice president at Nortel, who's now marketing VP at Vyatta, blogged the sad decay of Nortel. "The current global recession will test everybody, I think, and we'll see who is strong enough to make it. "
"We didn’t mean to do it… you’ve got to believe us," said Kelly Herrell, CEO of Vyatta, in a press release apologising to Nortel after the network giant filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. "No one is more shocked than we are. Even my mother is upset."
More seriously, Dave Roberts, a former enterprise marketing vice president at Nortel, who's now marketing VP at Vyatta, blogged the sad decay of Nortel. "The current global recession will test everybody, I think, and we'll see who is strong enough to make it. "
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Brutal. Wow. And I thought Ballmer and Ellison were nasty brats!
