Jolla

Jolla Oy

Type	Osakeyhtiö (Limited company)
Industry	Mobile devices, Consumer Electronics/Devices
Predecessor	MeeGo team from Nokia
Founded	Pirkkala, Finland (March 29, 2011 (2011-03-29))
Founder	Sami Pienimäki Jussi Hurmola Marc Dillon Stefano Mosconi Antti Saarnio
Headquarters	Helsinki, Finland
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Antti Saarnio (Chairman & Finance) Tomi Pienimäki (CEO) Marc Dillon (Head of Software Development) Sami Pienimäki (VP of Sales & Business Development) Stefano Mosconi (CIO) Jussi Hurmola (Sailfish strategy) Alberto Martinez (Partnership Coordinator)
Products	Smartphones with Linux-based Sailfish OS continuing the previous work of the MeeGo project
Number of employees	150 developers
Website	jolla.com, blog.jolla.com

Jolla Oy (sometimes referred to as Jolla Ltd.) is a Finnish technology company; a vendor of mobile devices and the developer of Sailfish OS. Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, Jolla has its own research and development offices in Helsinki, Tampere and Cyberport, Hong Kong. Jolla was founded in 2011 by former Nokia staff of the MeeGo project team to utilise the MeeGo opportunities and its "endless possibilities".

Pronounced 'yolla', the company name is Finnish for dinghy (a small agile boat or life rescue boat). It was intended as an ironic joke about the "burning platform memo" which contained the metaphor to "jump into the cold sea water" or "burn with burning platform" used in context of the Nokia business activities, in the memo leaked by then-Nokia CEO Stephen Elop in February 2011, with Osborne effect-like consequences.

In 2005, Nokia created a new Linux operating system called OS2005, which shipped with the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. It was renamed Maemo (version 5) and shipped with the Nokia N900 in 2009. An alliance Nokia and Intel merged their Maemo and Moblin (also an open source Linux OS) projects, respectively, into a new project called MeeGo in 2010. Nokia announced that year that the N8 would be the last flagship phone to run Symbian, and "Going forward, N-series devices will be based on MeeGo".

But unexpectedly in 2011 the MeeGo project was declared cancelled no matter whether MeeGo would or wouldn't achieve any success. In compliance with agreements with Intel, only one MeeGo device was released, the Nokia N9, which achieved iconic status.