Update 2: Nokia Sells MetaCarta - Three Months After Acquisition
I see that John Frank, MetaCarta founder and CTO, is now affiliated with new venture, Computable Insights, LLC which seems to be in the data mining space.
—- update 7/13/10——
I asked at the MetaCarta booth here at ESRI UC after I got no response on a call to Qbase. (No e-mail for press, and I had to leave a message in a generic phone mail box. I guess they are on east coast hours?)
Bottom line: MetaCarta’s enterprise group was sold to Qbase - that is, the folks who administer/consult to enterprise customers. They’ll have that same role in Qbase, basically acting as value-added resellers of what is now Nokia’s technology. The logic (and this makes sense): Nokia is a consumer company, with no interest/experinece in dealing with the enterprise. So, this divestment essentially took that part of the company “off the table.”
—- original post 7/12/10—-
Nokia will hold onto the “geographic intelligence technology” part, but sell the rest to Qbase.
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