So long public quarterly performance reviews and hello pure, focused and aggressive pursuit of the IP communications market. Avaya's Michael Thurk waxes poetic with the press on the benefits of the company's pending merger this fall, with two private equity firms--Silver Lake and TPG Capital. The arrangement couldn't be further from Avaya's reality had it been bought by likes of Cisco or Nortel.

For more on Avaya's acquisition:
- read this article from the ChannelWeb Network

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