Leadership, Strategy and Qt

Re:Leadership, Strategy and Qt by nitrogen on Saturday June 23, 2012 @07:21AM (#4150584)

I see you consistently making posts that go against the local grain by glorifying the decisions of CEOs, defending ideas that most hackers attack, etc. What is your background that gives you this radically different perspective?

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Re:Leadership, Strategy and Qt by chris_wot on Saturday June 23, 2012 @09:25AM (#4150784)

Play the argument, not the man.

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Re:Leadership, Strategy and Qt by taligent on Saturday June 23, 2012 @07:41AM (#4150609)

What radically different perspective ?

It's common sense that Nokia was not going to have a use for Qt or anyone involved with it once they moved to a MS strategy. I would honestly love to know what is being communicated internally for Nokia employees to be surprised at this.

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Re:Leadership, Strategy and Qt by Retric on Saturday June 23, 2012 @08:12AM (#4150665)

It's generally understood that finding a talented Dev team is far harder than transitioning a team to a new technology. Many company's have transitioned code from platform A to platform B without building a new team from scratch.

Not because everyone will make the transition but because what separates a great QT/.net/java/c++ developer from an average one has vary little to do with experience. So, while such transitions are a great time to remove deadwood, and you want to find some experts in the new stack laying off the old team is expensive and rarely worth it.

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Re:Leadership, Strategy and Qt by sho_hn on Saturday June 23, 2012 @07:46AM (#4150619)

FWIW, Elop made public comments along the line of, roughly, "we're currently working on something that is going to make everything we're selling right now, including Lumia, irrelevant", which may serve as a basis for extrapolating what was being communicated internally, or at least how it was understood by some.

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Re:Leadership, Strategy and Qt by batista on Saturday June 23, 2012 @08:40AM (#4150711)

>It's common sense that Nokia was not going to have a use for Qt or anyone involved with it once they moved to a MS strategy.

The radical perspective is that they have a "MS strategy" and that that "MS strategy" will do them any good.

You seem to believe something which, judging by Nokia's results and MS recent (10 year) history, it seems ludicrous if not suicidal.

Plus, if that "Surface" thing goes well, what's to stop MS trying to build their own phones? From a mobile leader that it was in the past, Nokia will become --at best-- a insignificant MS home making division, and at worst an ex-partner with no recourse.

Of course the more probable outcome is that Windows Phone 8,9,10,x will continue it's Zune-like irrelevance, and Nokia with enter a RIM like free fall...

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Re:Leadership, Strategy and Qt by mindcrime on Saturday June 23, 2012 @11:19AM (#4151002)

Nokia will become --at best-- a insignificant MS home making division, and at worst an ex-partner with no recourse.

The two biggest strategic blunders you can commit: One, staging a ground invasion of Russia in winter. Two, partnering with Microsoft.

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