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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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