Nokia-Microsoft Deal Gets Signed
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Nokia-Microsoft Deal Gets Signed
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#2Let me see if I have this right: the CEO of Nokia very publicly declares that he is going to bet the company on WP7 weeks before finalizing a deal for WP7.
Didn't the very public declaration, which IIRC caused resignations by engineers working on Symbian and Meego, radically weaken Nokia's negotiating position?
I must be missing something because it is unlikely that the leadership of a major corporation would be that unskillful at negotiation.
Re: Nokia-Microsoft Deal Gets Signed
#3Let me see if I have this right: the CEO of Nokia very publicly declares that he is going to bet the company on WP7 weeks before finalizing a deal for WP7. Didn't the very public declaration, which IIRC caused resignations by engineers working on Symbian and Meego, radically weaken Nokia's negotiating position? I must be missing something because it is unlikely that the leadership of a major corporation would be that…
They probably already signed an intention for the final agreement, and just had to fill in the details.
Re: Nokia-Microsoft Deal Gets Signed
#4Let me see if I have this right: the CEO of Nokia very publicly declares that he is going to bet the company on WP7 weeks before finalizing a deal for WP7. Didn't the very public declaration, which IIRC caused resignations by engineers working on Symbian and Meego, radically weaken Nokia's negotiating position? I must be missing something because it is unlikely that the leadership of a major corporation would be that…
MS (and possibly Nokia) probably wanted an early public commitment. People were pronouncing WP7 dead on arrival. The Nokia announcement puts real weight behind the platform.
In short by kicking up a fuss then they have killed the DOA claims. It means more people will have been looking at the platform. If they had delayed until now more mind share would already be locked into Android or iPhone. Unless a major player made a lot of noise about WP7 nobody would bother learning to develop for it.
Re: Nokia-Microsoft Deal Gets Signed
#5Let me see if I have this right: the CEO of Nokia very publicly declares that he is going to bet the company on WP7 weeks before finalizing a deal for WP7. Didn't the very public declaration, which IIRC caused resignations by engineers working on Symbian and Meego, radically weaken Nokia's negotiating position? I must be missing something because it is unlikely that the leadership of a major corporation would be that…
It has been suggested that Elop was installed at Nokia specifically to act in Microsoft's best interest. Indeed, his actions make sense when so viewed.
Interestingly, this may be his specialty: check out his movements preceding the sale of Macromedia to Adobe.
Re: Nokia-Microsoft Deal Gets Signed
#6Let me see if I have this right: the CEO of Nokia very publicly declares that he is going to bet the company on WP7 weeks before finalizing a deal for WP7. Didn't the very public declaration, which IIRC caused resignations by engineers working on Symbian and Meego, radically weaken Nokia's negotiating position? I must be missing something because it is unlikely that the leadership of a major corporation would be that…
They probably already signed an intention for the final agreement, and just had to fill in the details.
Yes, final sign-off on these deals can be a slow and tortuous process. But it still seems impetuous and somewhat risky to make announcements based on a final sign-of that has not yet happened, no matter how secure your feel in the likely hood of that final sign-off happening. Unless, of course a separate agreement was made that if the deal did fall through at that late stage the halting party would compensate the other in some meaningful way.
Re: Nokia-Microsoft Deal Gets Signed
#7Let me see if I have this right: the CEO of Nokia very publicly declares that he is going to bet the company on WP7 weeks before finalizing a deal for WP7. Didn't the very public declaration, which IIRC caused resignations by engineers working on Symbian and Meego, radically weaken Nokia's negotiating position? I must be missing something because it is unlikely that the leadership of a major corporation would be that…
Given the large number of people across both corporate bureaucracies that would be involved in negotiating the final deal (and in providing information that the negotiators would need), if they had tried to keep everything under wraps until the final agreement had been signed, there would have been no end of leaks. By pre-announcing the deal the CEO could at least put his own spin on what was going on.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
They probably already signed an intention for the final agreement, and just had to fill in the details.
Yes, final sign-off on these deals can be a slow and tortuous process. But it still seems impetuous and somewhat risky to make announcements based on a final sign-of that has not yet happened, no matter how secure your feel in the likely hood of that final sign-off happening . Unless, of course a separate agreement was made that if the deal did fall through at that late stage the halting party would compensate the ot…
I think that kind of multi-stage deal is common in large corporate transactions.
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#9Note, other MS partner deals that work oh so well:
MS-Yahoo..the current revenue numbers indicate that with MS's help Yahoo will reach a floor of below $200 million within one year from now from a high of several yeas back of $500 million.
How many restarts for winCE now? Is it not he 5th code base restart? Gee Nokia should be right at home than :)
Re: Nokia-Microsoft Deal Gets Signed
#10Let me see if I have this right: the CEO of Nokia very publicly declares that he is going to bet the company on WP7 weeks before finalizing a deal for WP7. Didn't the very public declaration, which IIRC caused resignations by engineers working on Symbian and Meego, radically weaken Nokia's negotiating position? I must be missing something because it is unlikely that the leadership of a major corporation would be that…
It has been suggested that Elop was installed at Nokia specifically to act in Microsoft's best interest. Indeed, his actions make sense when so viewed. Interestingly, this may be his specialty: check out his movements preceding the sale of Macromedia to Adobe.
Can you unpack 'was installed'? Microsoft doesn't have the ability to appoint Nokia's CEO.