2. Christopher Scott, Stratonet
Avaya has ended months of speculation over whether it would file for bankruptcy. The UC company has entered chapter 11, its second time in six years. Although Avaya faces many challenges, CEO Alan Masarek said the company he leads is ready for “transformation.”
Some experts suggest that Avaya is too big to fail. Christopher Scott, principal owner of StratoNet is not one of those. He made waves when he said:
“Fifteen years ago, these were the longstanding big dogs in the voice CPE market: Nortel, Mitel, NEC, Avaya, Toshiba, Cisco and ShoreTel. Over those fifteen years, not one of those companies executed a cloud migration particularly well; in most cases fatally so.”
Scott added: “And it’s not like voice services moving to the cloud was not foreseeable, even unavoidable. Stepping back and evaluating causes for this massive industry failure is a story unto itself. Ultimately, the victims were the shareholders, and they may also have been the cause. But that’s probably not the whole story.”
Read more from analysts and experts about their views regarding the Avaya bankruptcy.
