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Comment by pjmlp

Elop did, Nokia engineering not so much.

Our culture was pretty much anti-MS before he came on board.

On the server side we were using HP-UX, Perl, C++, in 2005 the transition for Red-Hat Linux and Java started.

On the devices, Symbian and the Maemo (Linux based).

Symbian was finally getting usable with PIPS, Qt and Eclipse based Carbide.

I happened to be in Espoo the week after this memo was published, I haven't found anyone that agreed with it.

Everyone thought the community would never jump of joy with Microsoft technologies, and right they were.

parent pjmlp 4 years ago

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