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

[Dave Russo]

It may have stopped another buyer from scooping Metaswitch at that time. Sometimes that's the only reason to buy a company when you're a behemoth like MS.

-dr


On Wed, Dec 11, 2024, at 10:51 AM, Alex Balashov via VoiceOps wrote:
>> On Dec 11, 2024, at 12:46 pm, Enzo Damato via VoiceOps <voiceops at voiceops.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I think Microsoft's big goal with this was to acquire a working, reliable SIP and IMS stack. I would put money on the metaswtich technology being a big part of what's running teams and their other VoIP platforms in the backed. Now that they've presumably merged that tech into their stack, they have no interest in continuing to service the ILEC/CLEC market.
>
> You might be right. But if they had just licensed this from a major 
> softswitch vendor like Metaswitch, or got the professional services / 
> consulting arm of Metaswitch (or whoever) to do the integration for 
> them, they might have spent a lot less than $270MM and without any of 
> the drama.
>
> -- Alex
>
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