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Nortel's problems were Bay-sic

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Nortel's problems were Bay-sic

As Nortel goes through its last stages, there are a lot of people analyzing what went wrong, particularly in the time since the dot-com bust. But for me, the watershed moment was just before then, when Nortel bought Bay Networks. Read full story

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