Comments on: Unix50 – Unix Today and Tomorrow: Future of Compute & Platforms: The Kernel

By: adam

adam — Sat, 09 Nov 2019 22:41:02 +0000

Alcatel-Lucent (when got Bell Labs in the breakup) was bought by Nokia.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 11:24:57 +0000

In reply to Chris M..

I just remembered the Motorola plant that made all the beepers and everyone swearing its where ‘blinky’ the 3 eye fish was from. I interviewed at Citrix but they were only willing to pay minimum wage.. So I took a support job at a world famous bank that issues their own credit cards.

Maybe the wrong choice.. Or the wrong coast.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 16:04:11 +0000

In reply to ffom. That's the cellphones. I bought one, it was.. meh, a good mid range phone, but nothing awesome.

By: ffom

ffom — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 09:57:10 +0000

Isn’t Nokia owned by some Chinese conglomerate now as well? Or was that just the phone side of their business and they’re still independent and working on something else? I seem to remember them working on car systems, similar to what RIM started doing after the Blackberry died.

By: Chris M.

Chris M. — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 02:43:05 +0000

Growing up in the shadows of Bell Labs its weird to see that giant Nokia sign in front of the building. I remember when the black monolith AT&T signs were still up around that campus! Nokia managed to pick up the scraps of Alcatel, which had picked up Lucent a decade earlier (seems the company can’t last more then 10 years!). Of all the spin-offs over the years, it seems that the only one doing well is Avaya. They even managed to get a piece of Nortel in the end.