The writer of this memo is sending unambiguous messages that Nokia should not hold on to Symbian and diversify to save the life of Nokia.

Okay that is really the quickiest solution in boosting Nokia's earnings in the short run; but as many people above has pointed out, that we won't want an android or wp7 phone from Nokia. Personally I'd prefer HTC over Nokia for an android.

Also the writer obviously doesn't like MeeGo. He pointed out (correctly) that the progress of deploying MeeGo is so slow that he won't expect to see more than one MeeGo release this year. If it's really out of the mouth of Elop then we'd pretty much putting any hope in MeeGo phone on hold this year. Well actually it might not be a bad thing indeed.

The purpose of this memo seems to be getting the readers (probably board members) to side with him in 1) switching OS platform from Symbian to something else and 2) focusing the resources from developing new platform (MeeGo) to developing a new ecosystem for existing OS platforms (other than Symbian)

Typical businessman from MS

Let's see if he could get enough board members to side with him in changing the direction of Nokia. I'd really doubt it. ^^

It's very clever for not confirming the authenticity of this memo at this moment, as Elop could always deny having written this memo later if he failed to persuade the board in changing direction. Cunning.