ROBERTISMS: WE'RE NOW ALCATEL-LUCENT

Alcatel and Lucent Technologies announced plans to merge in April 2006. The merger was completed in November 2006. Day One of Alcatel-Lucent is on December 1, 2006.

In celebrating Day One, which actually fell on December 4 in Saudi Arabia, former Alcatel and Lucent employees gathered at a hotel in Riyadh. Photos of the gathering are posted below.

In addition, here also are blurbs about the new company, taken from the website --

"The combination of Alcatel and Lucent creates the world's pre-eminent communications solutions company. Alcatel-Lucent is a truly global enterprise that transcends national borders, with an extensive, well-balanced global presence in terms of both resources and revenues, a comprehensive portfolio of industry-leading products and services and one of the largest and most innovative R&D capabilities."

"Alcatel-Lucent provides solutions that enable service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. As a leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP technologies, applications, and services, Alcatel-Lucent offers the end-to-end solutions that enable compelling communications services for people at home, at work and on the move. Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global reach. The company has the most experienced global services team in the industry, and one of the largest research, technology and innovation organizations in the telecommunications industry."

The company's new logo is a stylized version of an infinity symbol that looks as if it were drawn by hand. Embedded within the symbol is an A and an L. It is both fluid and infinite. The signature color of the new logo is purple, a bold color that symbolizes ambition and is also associated with creativity, wisdom and dignity.

Note new Lenovo laptop, the official computer of Alcatel-Lucent.