As per the article, with italic emphases mine:
"A year ago, Nokia sold its struggling handset business to Microsoft Corp. This week's media reports were focused on the idea that Nokia may buy Alcatel-Lucent's mobile networks arm, which would be a simpler deal to carry out than a full combination but would leave the French firm much smaller."
In short, Nokia sold their iconic and consumer-facing handset division (what they used to call their "Device & Services Business"[1]) to Microsoft in November 2013, although the sale didn't officially complete until April 2014. However, after the divestiture Nokia still existed as a corporate entity with the majority (over 90%) of the revenues coming from their Nokia Solutions and Networks division (NSN) [2]. NSN and ALU's mobile networks division are direct competitors in the telecommunication equipment and software market, so a potential merger makes sense depending on which side of the table you're on.
It does indeed make sense for Nokia. Specially in the context of them considering selling off Here maps. Seems there's a sentiment at Nokia to focus on their core business to regain shareholder confidence(and hopefully, I suppose, improve the junk status of their stock).
Many people seem to have trouble grasping that Nokia still exists as a separate entity after being "sold" to Microsoft.
Think about it like this: IBM made laptops. IBM sold the laptop division to Lenovo. Lenovo now makes laptops using IBM's old brandname (Thinkpad). IBM still exists and is doing other stuff.
Ergo, Nokia made phones. Nokia sold the phone division to Microsoft. Microsoft now makes phones using Nokia's old brandnames (Lumia and Asha). Nokia still exists and is doing other stuff.
Agreed, but people Nokia's handsets were traditionally sold under the Nokia brand name, not Lumia or whatnot. Everybody knew that there was a lot more to IBM than ThinkPads, but most people didn't realize that Nokia had a huge business selling network switching infrastructure to telcos.
Just to mention it here, IHaskell solves a lot of the annoyances with ghci. Easy multi-line input, don't need let in front of functions, can define modules and load them (automatically compiled), etc. I think they are working on support for template haskell too (important for experimenting with lens code etc)
Furthermore, if your web server (or database server, or any other interet-facing service) is vulnerable, it won't matter which programming language you are using. Assume that all input is hostile.
I'm assuming the down votes are because you missed the point of your parent. The example uses a PHP script for uploading the payload, but that can be swapped out for nearly any language on a server. They all require an exploit to get the dropper on there anyway, so that's a barrier. PHP isn't the point here though, it's the interesting damage the exploit that gets pulled down by the dropper can achieve, without needing to use privilege escalation.
