Nokia's new MeeGo-based N9 is set up for failure

Re:Nokia's new MeeGo-based N9 is set up for failure by beagle3 on Saturday June 25, 2011 @12:21PM (#2695951)

> Elop seems determined to walk in Adam Osbourne's footsteps:

Rick Belluzzo's footsteps are a better comparison: (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Belluzzo for more); He killed HP's processor business (giving it to Intel for free), then destroyed SGI (killing MIPS and IRIX in the process).

The main beneficiary in all three cases (Nokia, SGI, HP) is actually Microsoft - where Belluzzo got a job later, and I'm sure Elop will go back to later to collect his reward -- after all, he sold Nokia to MS for $1B, way below market price.

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Re:Nokia's new MeeGo-based N9 is set up for failure by raganwald on Saturday June 25, 2011 @03:54PM (#2696405)

Or Ray Noorda:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novell#Beyond_NetWare

Bought Unix Systems Laboratories, Wordperfect, Quattro Pro, and DR DOS, and squandered them, accelerating Microsoft's dominance of PC operating systems and office software.

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