Ah, poor Nortel. It must be terrible to only have $11 billion in revenues. So terrible, in fact, that if anyone dared to use an open source PBX, it would be grounds for complaining about it. Voiciferously. Wouldn't you? Well, that's apparently just what Nortel did, as Tom Keating reports:What happens when a VoIP blog (yours truly) writes about the fact that a former Nortel subsidiary (Blade Network Technologies) Ah, poor Nortel. It must be terrible to only have $11 billion in revenues. So terrible, in fact, that if anyone dared to use an open source PBX, it would be grounds for complaining about it. Voiciferously. Wouldn’t you?Well, that’s apparently just what Nortel did, as Tom Keating reports: What happens when a VoIP blog (yours truly) writes about the fact that a former Nortel subsidiary (Blade Network Technologies) went looking for a new phone system, chose an open-source Asterisk-based solution from Fonality instead of using Nortel’s own PBX and then agreed to go on record on the VoIP & Gadgets blog about why they made such a shocking decision? A) Nothing – it’s a VoIP blog – who cares? Nortel is an $11 billion dollar company that certainly doesn’t read blogs for their news. B) Nortel reads the blog post, is a little peeved, but other than some emails sent internally, no one outside Nortel would ever know they were annoyed. C) A Nortel Board Member flips out over the article, contacts Blade and then pressures Blade to return the Fonality system and have Fonality print a retraction to the blog article (and the subsequent press release). If you answered C) congratulations, we have a winner! Yes, it’s true – and in true David (Fonality) vs. Goliath (Nortel) fashion it would appear that we have Nortel peeved that one of their former subsidiaries chose an open-source IP-PBX (PBXtra from Fonality) and who had the audacity to speak to the press about why they made such a decision. Why, the nerve! Pathetic. I know open source is eating into proprietary software growth, but come on…. Open Source