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

[Henning Westerholt]

Obviously, this is just a random guess.

But if you frequently interact with Microsoft support or other customer centric channels, you will probably notice that their standard services are not in particular targeted or easily consumable from Telcos or Internet Service providers. Furthermore, perhaps many of these customers could not so easily migrated to their existing cloud services as they might expected from the investment business case.

So, it could be beneficial from a Microsoft point of view for company process efficiency and product margins to get rid of this "difficult" customers.

Cheers,

Henning

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From: VoiceOps <voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org> On Behalf Of Alex Balashov via VoiceOps
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2024 7:13 PM
To: Daniel White <dwhite at atheral.com>
Cc: voiceops at voiceops.org
Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Alianza Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Metaswitch from Microsoft

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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> <jgnoagpimdlfjigb.png>Daniel White
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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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