It suggests, at least, that the guy wasn't happy with what he was seeing in Nokia.

It's hard to imagine that he left Nokia for more money.

Myriad Group, a company created by the merger of Esmertec and Purple Labs, Wednesday reported its pro forma revenue of $62.7 million for the first half of this year. Although the software developer's revenue was up 215% from the first half of 2008, it's still a small fish compared to Nokia.

We have no knowledge of what, going on inside Nokia, might have prompted Schillings' defection. But we do know that Nokia's strategy -- its software roadmap in particular -- seems to be in flux, if not downright directionless.

Let's be clear. Schillings, a smart, articulate executive with a charming French accent, had been the face of Nokia's software efforts for the last two years. Nokia trotted him out to speak to developers and media at every opportunity " in London, Monte Carlo, you name it.

I was there and I was keenly aware that Nokia has been engineering some pretty revolutionary changes in their software development playbook.

Nokia's acquisition of Symbian was hailed by the industry as one of several "game-changing" moves by Nokia. By turning Symbian into a non-profit entity " Symbian Foundation -- Nokia ushered into its future the collective power of the open-source community.

However, as we all know, the Symbian Foundation still has a long way to go before it can completely hand off its software to open-source developers.

Nokia has been also making available for developers QT for S60, a C++ application development framework. QT was Schillings' baby and the reason why he was brought to Nokia in the first place.