Mitel closes deal to acquire Unify from Atos

▤ Summary

When that deal happened, it didn’t make much sense, and Unify proved to be a square peg in the round hole of Atos. The combined company will have an installed base of more than 75 million users in more than 100 countries with in excess of 5,500 resellers, service providers and others in its partner community. If one uses the generally accepted number of 400 million business desktops globally, Mitel will now have about 20% market share, which makes it the clear No. Both companies had many starts and stops with the cloud and have decided to partner with RingCentral, although the go-to-market models for Mitel and Unify are slightly different. For customers that want on-premises or hybrid, quality devices and managed services, a stronger and consolidated company ensures more features and innovation into a product category that most other vendors now ignore.

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