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Re:Nokia 9000 Communicator was launched 25 years ago by pjmlp on Monday August 16, 2021 @10:23AM (#28198460)
Being at Nokia Networks during that last phase, I could observe in first person how many of those things went.

Nokia used to have internal shows to get employees feedback for future products, Maemo not having a radio modem was a common remark, naturally they couldn't add it due to Symbian.

Also think that Elop gets more blame than he deserves, as many see his connection to Microsoft and not the bonus from Nokia's own management board.

NetAct versus other networking products, also suffered from the same culture issues, by the way.

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Re:Nokia 9000 Communicator was launched 25 years ago by amonavis on Monday August 16, 2021 @11:10AM (#28199011)
Even today NetAct remains a hot mess.
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Re:Nokia 9000 Communicator was launched 25 years ago by pjmlp on Monday August 16, 2021 @03:06PM (#28201623)
Looking back, the way OSS Middleware was supposed to reboot NetAct, was the wrong approach, we had better just rewrite everything in better C++ without the Perl/CORBA stuff, but many pieces were at play.

Not much else I can talk openly about it.

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