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Depends on the goal. I think the goal of going with Microsoft now is to become a tempting acquisition target. Nokia's market cap is only about 15% of Microsofts, and I suspect that management wants a take-over bid.

They could call this novel business strategy the "Opossum Behaviour" business plan... but why is it good for the Nokia shareholders again??

Why don't they buy Mandriva? Its a good distro.
And... Mandriva is having a hard time to get investors around (stock is frozen right now for that reason).
Seems to me they will be a cheaper to buy...

True enough. I do think that with all the flagrant Monopoly money waving resulting in big corps outside the USA to adopt similar ethics and work standards.

Quoting the CEO from 3rd quarter 08-09 sales report (bottom of the first page): "However, as some of our games did not meet the required quality levels to achieve their full potential they need more sales promotions than anticipated."

Sounding pretty Americanized to me.

I think what we have here is... "a failure to communicate".

The RR vs. Hyundai is too full of apples vs. oranges comparisons. Let's get more abstract.

You're an entrepreneur. Your "pay" is based on stock options. If your company makes high-end luxury products, it will probably never have a huge market capitalization. Assuming you own a fixed percentage of either company, you should prefer the one with the larger market capitalization.

Note, you could poke holes in this argument by stating that in order for the corporation to grow, it has to issue more shares and/or raise more VC funding, thus diluting the founder's stake. However, you didn't mention that.

Your theory about the luxury brands being more stable is intriguing. Can you point to statistics to back it up? Ideally, a fund that maintains a portfolio of luxury brands companies, and its track record would be the ideal way to support or refute that argument. I can understand why you might be willing to pay a premium for stability.

Hermes, a well known-luxury brand in a different industry, has a chart that appears contrarian over most of this year (bear in mind it's quoted in Euros though, so while it was down earlier in the year, it was actually worth a lot more when converted to dollars). Yet, Hermes appears to have pulled back recently just like everything else (once again, the exchange rate distorts our picture). I just pulled this chart up now, and don't follow the high end fashion business (or fashion at all, from an investment or a personal PoV) so I'm reluctant to draw any conclusions here. I just thought you might find it interesting.

Euronext, the leading european market, was also using HP NonStop, but they have migrated their NSC engine to Linux. It is already in production.

If you really want that, NYSE is not yet ready. RTFA.
But if you invest in Europe, on an Euronext market (Paris, Brussells, Amsterdam, Lisbon), orders are already matching on Linux.

In order to understand the meaning, I think the best is to click on the Euronext link provided in the story. It provides the price, the increase, the volume and many other informations about Mandrakesoft's stock...

The Euronext stock exchange where the other reply to this post says that Mandrakesoft will IPO is the merger of only 3 of Europe's stock exchanges.

They are also trading in different markets. Mandrake is not floating on the NASDAQ, they're floating on the "Marché Libre" of EuroNext - the Pan-European market (Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam).