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Microsoft, Nokia and the sound of colliding garbage trucks | |
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| Time: 08:31 EST/13:31 GMT | News Source: The Register | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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History, it is said, doesn't repeat itself – there are merely echoes through time. Listening to Microsoft's $7.1bn purchase of Nokia's phone and services, you'd have certainly heard an echo – the distant grinding noise of two colliding garbage trucks reverberating down the years. The phrase "the sound of two garbage trucks colliding" was coined by Sun Microsystems' co-founder and chief executive Scott McNealy to describe the merger of rivals Hewlett-Packard and Compaq. | ||
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