[Juha]

Nokia Networks has been very separate venture from the better known Nokia-mobile. It was previously a joint venture between Nokia and Siemens known as NSN (Nokia Siemens Networks). In 2013 Nokia bought rest of the stock from Siemens and renamed it Nokia Networks.

[pjmlp]

Yeah former Nokia Networks employee here, that whole NSN thing was a big mistake.

[ptaipale]

I'm also former Nokia Networks: I would not say the "whole" thing was a big mistake. I could understand the business sense. Some parts of merger worked better and some were worse. Myself, I got a new boss from Siemens who was a good guy. Got laid off later on, though. Overall, the execution of that merger seems to have been better than the Alcatel-Lucent merger a year earlier. Nokia Networks is actually alive, which is much better than what I thought back in 2006. And not only alive, but actually doing rather well (at least until this).

The bad feeling I have about this is that in the picture, Suri shakes hands with Hollande. That tells how political the deal is, and how wrong it can go (with all that protectionism etc).

On the other hand JTB says this is not good, so I have the instinct reaction that it must be good.

[monkeyshelli]

I remember that culturally Siemens saw itself as a oil-tanker plowing through, and Nokia saw itself as a nimble and agile fish school. No wonder it ended up where it did, if the cultural differences in the way of working was so different.