[mytailorisrich]

Nortel was not killed by Huawei or a hack. It was killed by bad management.

The article tries to paint the picture of a fantastic company but that was not the case. It was mismanaged (and the article provides some glaring examples, including fraud), slow, bloated, it was really struggling in the cellular space.

Even the account of the hack shows how badly Nortel handled it.

There's always the temptation to find an external scapegoat but the buck does stop with Nortel's management.

[dig1]

The same happened to Nokia. People usually say that Microsoft killed it, but it was already pretty much behind everything when Microsoft took it.

Too much bureaucracy, everything outsourced, management out of touch with anything, meetings after meetings... Hell, I remember two/three weeks of meetings to replace apache proxy with nginx. Actual replacement and configuration update would take a couple of minutes.

[jiggawatts]

"But what if something goes wrong!?"