Nokia :-3 Microsoft fiasco

[Michael Haney]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Avi
<avismailinglistaccount at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Michael Haney wrote:
>
>>
>> Goes to show you, get in bed with Microsoft and you're going to get
>> burned.  Just as SCO.  That company is on life-support and likely
>> won't survive another year.  If they loose these next few court cases
>> they're done.
>>
>
> Not really.
> Plenty of companies are in bed with MS, in much the same way as Nokia
> are now (like every commodity PC manufacturer) without being 'burned'.
> I'm not convinced this staff walkout is going to kill Nokia, either.
> Nokia has some quite major problems, but they're not that they're now
> in bed with MS, and they predate both that and the walkout.
>
> And SCO has been in a state of 'likely wont survive another year' for
> many years. I think SCO will die in the year of the Linux desktop, when
> the iPod killer comes along...
>

Well, the Stockholder revolt that's brewing could certainly shake things up.

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