Amazonilta herunut rahapotti varmasti tuotti monelle pettymyksen ennen kaikkea kertakorvauksen ilmeisen pienuuden vuoksi. Uskoisin kyseessä olleen harkittu vastaantulo Nokian puolelta hyvän kumppanuuden mahdollistamiseksi huomioiden Amazonin valtavat datakeskusinvestoinnit. Hotardin sanoin:
“This is a very important customer, very important hyperscale customer for us across our, certainly, our NI business as well. And then they’re also an important partner for us in terms of our cloud and network services business as well as a public cloud where we’re running certain platforms and services, and there’s been announcements around that publicly. So I think for me, I really look at this as a sort of a 360 relationship. And obviously, this is one element. And it’s important to recognize that there’s other value that other value in the partnership beyond just a tech licensing agreement.”
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“This is somewhat being downplayed or overlooked but, also because of how Nokia is vaguely reporting it. The long term importance and profitability of this agreement is huge and could potentially disrupt the competition in NI product domains if Nokia can take a big share in AWS cloud and data center networking.”