When Nokia and Microsoft announced their alliance in software development business the first impression was that this is ugly as incest. Nokia would abandon some its core assets and Microsoft would provide its so far marginal Windows Phone 7 as the main platform for Nokia’a smart phones? What is more, the MEEGO operating system or at least the MAEMO was almost functional when it was sidelined from Nokia’s strategy? The blog scene offers much better technological and managerial analyses of the pact so it does not make sense to compete in that front. Couple of interesting notions from organizational theory may still be warranted. Let’s see how Glostra’s basic assumptions correspond with the deal:
