Mitel drops ShoreTel bid
Customers of ShoreTel phones and unified communications gear can stop worrying that their lives might get complicated by a merger between the company and its rival Mitel.
Customers of ShoreTel phones and unified communications gear can stop worrying that their lives might get complicated by a merger between the company and its rival Mitel.
Anyone thinking about signing a deal with ShoreTel for unified communications gear might want to take a closer look now that Mitel has made public its hopes to buy the company.
ShoreTel has rejected both Mitel Networks' first and a subsequent higher bid, declaring it "significantly undervalued" the company.
When the Brooklyn Nets traveled to Boston to play the Celtics last week, it became apparent that the two organizations disagreed about something - the cloud.
Enterprise IT groups can now tie in <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/110910-google-android-useful-resources-smartphones.html">Android</a>-based mobile devices to corporate directories and IP PBXs, with the latest update by ShoreTel to its mobility software.
Nemertes has conducted research to analyse real-world cost data, including capital, implementation, and operational costs. The research helps companies compare how overall costs change based on the provider selected. Most important, it includes ongoing operational costs, which are hard to factor into a business case until the IT staff actually must manage the provider in question. This paper documents those costs and provides the three different sample outputs from a cost model developed by Nemertes, populated with the research data.