>it was initiated very much by me & the UC team while inside Amdocs. in other words by amdocs. ericsson starting to sell matrix based solution while amdocs no

>it was initiated very much by me & the UC team while inside Amdocs. in other words by amdocs. ericsson starting to sell matrix based solution while amdocs not selling any (or none of traditional amdocs clients like AT&T, Comcast, T-Mobile, etc expressing interest in buying one), it's the definition of "no go" and "no fit" for amdocs. At this timeframe, amdocs could sink tens of millions of dollars into open source project if they thought that they will get some money back. ONAP will be prime example of this. internal presentation in amdocs that were circulated on VP+ level most definitely talked about scratching immediate business itch for Amdocs. It was talking about how telecoms are upset that OTT messaging killing SMS and profits and that matrix is attempt to give to telecoms something to compete with it. I said that idea that telecoms can get this market back is bananas, but management had shiny new toy to play with and they were excited about it. Hence they allowed it to run till the moment that they saw that no profit can be done there.