[VoiceOps] Alianza Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Metaswitch from Microsoft

[Alex Balashov]

This is fair, but then why would Microsoft allow this, instead of holding the Metaswitch customer relationships hostage to their own cloud communications platform?

> On Dec 10, 2024, at 1:11 pm, Daniel White via VoiceOps <voiceops at voiceops.org> wrote:
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> I doubt it.  Alianza has their own platform they have developed in house from the beginning.  It is a hosted/cloud platform rather than on-prem though.
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> I see this as a market share grab rather than a purchase for intellectual property.  I think it is just a stay of execution, not a commutation :-)
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>> Alex Balashov via VoiceOps
>>   December 10, 2024 at 10:57 AM
>> Should this be understood as an attempt to save Metaswitch from death, albeit in a tendentious way?
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>> Mike Hammett via VoiceOps
>>   December 10, 2024 at 10:54 AM
>> https://www.alianza.com/press-releases/alianza-to-acquire-metaswitch-from-microsoft/
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>> What's the consensus on Alianza? I've heard the name, but never so much as even looked at their website.
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