News
March 7, 2011
Nokia Dumps Qt
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on March 7, 2011 at 10:44:25 AM
That new Nokia CEO seems to hate anything open source. You know, he comes from Microsoft. Nokia is passing Qt to another company and hopefully Qt will survive this turmoil. It is an excellent platform for development.
http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/03/07/nokia-and-digia-working-together/
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However, these professional services are not core business activities for Nokia, so since the introduction of the LGPL license for Qt in 2009 we have been actively working to grow the number of companies providing Qt services. In 2010 we began the search for a company we could work with to serve the commercial licensees in the Qt community. We have now concluded that search and chosen to work with Digia. As a consequence, Digia will acquire the Qt Commercial software licensing and professional services business from Nokia, with the transaction expected to close by the end of March 2011.
Employing hundreds of Qt experts, Digia has 7 years experience in providing top-class Qt competence, and is dedicated to continue and grow Qt Commercial relationships as well as to contribute innovation to the overall Qt LGPL and commercial community.
http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/03/07/nokia-and-digia-working-together/
February 11, 2011
Nokia Says Goodbye To Qt
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 10:16:01 AM
This is a poor move for everyone. Nokia is now pushing Windows Phone 7 and is throwing out Qt in the process. Qt is the development platform for Symbian and even KDE on Linux. Qt is portable and works with nearly every operating system. Nokia's Microsoftish CEO struck the deal with devil and now Qt is being thrown out with the bathwater. Symbian is also killed off. Meego? Dead as well. This will be bad for Nokia.
You get one Meego device and that's it. Everything after is WP7.
http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/nokia-developer-news/2011/02/11/letter-to-developers
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Qt will continue to be the development framework for Symbian and Nokia will use Symbian for further devices; continuing to develop strategic applications in Qt for Symbian platform and encouraging application developers to do the same. With 200 million users worldwide and Nokia planning to sell around 150 million more Symbian devices, Symbian still offers unparalleled geographical scale for developers.
Extending the scope of Qt further will be our first MeeGo-related open source device, which we plan to ship later this year. Though our plans for MeeGo have been adapted in light of our planned partnership with Microsoft, that device will be compatible with applications developed within the Qt framework and so give Qt developers a further device to target.
You get one Meego device and that's it. Everything after is WP7.
http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/nokia-developer-news/2011/02/11/letter-to-developers
January 28, 2008
Nokia Buys Trolltech
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on January 28, 2008 at 7:15:07 PM
Trolltech makes QT, the libraries that KDE is built on. Nokia is said to have paid a scant $150 million for Trolltech. Hopefully this will spur more KDE and QT development. Nokia has a large stake in Linux with many of their devices.
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The acquisition of Trolltech will enable Nokia to accelerate its cross-platform software strategy for mobile devices and desktop applications, and develop its Internet services business. With Trolltech, Nokia and third party developers will be able to develop applications that work in the Internet, across Nokia’s device portfolio and on PCs. Nokia’s software strategy for devices is based on cross-platform development environments, layers of software that run across operating systems, enabling the development of applications across the Nokia device range. Examples of current cross-platform layers are Web runtime, Flash, Java and Open C.
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