{"id":5559,"date":"2007-06-01T05:43:15","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T05:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/communications-optimism.html"},"modified":"2007-06-01T05:43:15","modified_gmt":"2007-06-01T05:43:15","slug":"communications-optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/communications-optimism.html","title":{"rendered":"Communications Optimism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Last week I had a chance to spend a good deal of time with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/voip\/conference\/CA06\/sd06-norman-stout.htm\">Norman Stout<\/a> the CEO of Inter-Tel. He told me he is more optimistic about the spend in the market than any time in the last 7-8 years. Some of this is due to leases which expire and part of it has to do with the move to IP and the need for applications to increase productivity, etc.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">He didn&rsquo;t have much new to say about the Mitel merger except that things are moving along nicely and he hasn&rsquo;t had much interaction with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/voip\/conference\/ca04\/mihaylo.htm\">Steve Mihaylo<\/a> \/&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2007\/05\/16\/2630113.htm\">Vector Capital<\/a> (see Greg Galitzine&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/greg-galitzine\/voip\/intertel-stock-hits-52week-high-on-new-offer.html\">blog<\/a> for details on the potential competition to purchase Inter-Tel).<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I had a chance to spend a good deal of time with Norman Stout the CEO of Inter-Tel. He told me he is more optimistic about the spend in the market than any time in the last 7-8 years. Some of this is due to leases which expire and part of it has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,179,202,215,199,197,189,211,118,177,191],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}