Larry Dignan on the spec for a new CEO for Alcatel-Lucent
"if you’re a CEO type that thinks you can bridge a U.S.-France cultural divide, manage a multinational and can catch Cisco go for it."
Sounds like many aspects of the merger integration did not go well. What appeared to be going well (at least from a few tech industry sources) was a data center consolidation project. It was whittling down 25 DCs and 125 server rooms spread globally across the 2 companies to 6 DCs. As I have written before, consolidations are a difficult, but high payback, operation in many DC makeovers companies are embarking on.
