By Bo Gowan
10 June 2008
6:25 pm EDT
On Wednesday, Nortel will be hosting a group of investment analysts at its corporate headquarters in Toronto. It’s a full day agenda that starts off with Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski. In addition to Mike Z, CSO George Riedel and the various business presidents (among others) will be presenting.
If you are interested, the entire event will be webcast live. Just go to this web page tomorrow morning and click on the link to view the streaming session (audio and slides I believe).
Since the entire session is being broadcast to the masses, I don’t plan to live blog on the event here on Buzzboard. I will, however, be writing about various news and angles that …
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By Bo Gowan
10 June 2008
9:18 am EDT
Last week at Global Connect, one message I heard over and over was around the growth of INNUA — the International Nortel Networks Users Association. At the opening keynote session, INNUA President Steve Ford said thatmore than 500 new companies had joined INNUA in the last couple of months, and that membership had increased more than 5% YTD with several chapters having doubled in size.
Joel Hackney, Nortel’s president of enterprise solutions, spoke right after Steve Ford and added that end user attendance for Global Connect was up 41% versus last year (at a time when travel is being restricted).
So is all this growth with Nortel’s enterprise users’ group a pre-indicator of a coming Nortel …
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