Qt Development Frameworks
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| Type | Subsidiary |
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| Founded | March 4, 1994 |
| Founder(s) | Eirik Chambe-Eng Haavard Nord |
| Headquarters | Oslo, Norway |
| Products | Qt, Qt Extended, Greenphone |
| Revenue | 174,104,000 Norwegian krone (as of 2006[update])[1] |
| Net income | 46,526,000 Norwegian krone (as of 2006[update])[1] |
| Owner(s) | Nokia |
| Employees | 227 (2007)[1] |
| Website | qt.nokia.com |
Qt Development Frameworks (formerly known as Qt Software, Trolltech and as Quasar Technologies) is an Oslo, Norway-based software company best known for its Qt toolkit and application framework. Qt Development Frameworks is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nokia Corporation. Nokia sold the commercial licensing business of Qt to Digia PLC on March 2011.[2]
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[edit] Products
The company provides software development platforms and frameworks, as well as expert consulting services. Its flagship product is Qt, a multi-platform Graphical User Interface (GUI) framework written in C++. Qt is popular with application developers using C++ but is supported by bindings for other programming languages too, such as Python. Qt also includes packages such as data structures and a networking library. The popular, Free, and cross-platform KDE desktop environment and software compilation uses Trolltech's Qt library. The company also employs several KDE developers.
In 2001 Trolltech introduced Qtopia which is based on Qt. Qtopia is an application platform for Linux-based devices such as mobile phones, portable media players, and home media. It is also used in many non-consumer products such as medical instruments and industrial devices. Qtopia Phone Edition was released in 2004, and their Greenphone smartphone is based on this platform.
The following products exist but commercial support and development has stopped[3][4]:
- Qt Jambi – Qt for Java
- Qt Extended – Application platform for Embedded Linux-based mobile computing devices
[edit] History
Trolltech was founded by Eirik Chambe-Eng and Haavard Nord on March 4, 1994. They started writing Qt in 1991, and since then Qt has steadily expanded and improved. Trolltech completed an initial public offering (IPO) on the Oslo Stock Exchange in July, 2006.
On January 28, 2008, Nokia announced that they had entered into an agreement that Nokia would make a public voluntary tender offer to acquire Trolltech.[5] The total cost for Nokia is approximately € 104 million.[6] Trolltech has since accepted this offer.[7]
On June 5, 2008 Nokia’s voluntary tender offer was approved for all the shares in Trolltech. And by 17 June 2008, Nokia had completed its acquisition of Trolltech. On September 30, 2008, Trolltech was renamed as Qt Software, and Qtopia has been renamed as Qt Extended. On 11 August 2009, the company's name was changed to Qt Development Frameworks.[8]
[edit] See also
- Greenphone, a mobile phone developed by Trolltech that uses mostly free and open source software
- Nokia N900, a phone with support for Qt built in
- Symbian, which is moving towards Qt as the main development framework.
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Trolltech Quarterly Report: 4th Quarter 2006". Trolltech. http://dist.trolltech.com/pdf/TrolltechASA4Q06.pdf. Retrieved 2007-10-28.
- ^ Nokia to Sell Qt Business, by CHRISTOPHER LAWTON, MARCH 7, 2011, Wall Street Journal
- ^ Qt Software — Discontinues Qt Extended
- ^ Qt Software — To discontinue Qt Jambi after 4.5 release
- ^ "Nokia to acquire Trolltech to accelerate software strategy". 2008-01-28. http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1185531. Retrieved 2008-01-28.
- ^ "Nokia ostaa norjalaisen ohjelmistoyrityksen" (in fi). 2008-01-28. http://www.hs.fi/talous/artikkeli/Nokia+ostaa+norjalaisen+ohjelmistoyrityksen/1135233615595. Retrieved 2008-01-28.
- ^ "Nokia to acquire Trolltech to accelerate software strategy" (in en). 2008-01-28. http://trolltech.com/company/newsroom/announcements/press.2008-01-28.4605718236. Retrieved 2008-01-28.[dead link]
- ^ "New name, new domain announced for Qt Development Frameworks". 2009-08-11. http://qt.nokia.com/about/news/new-name-new-domain-announced-for-qt-development-frameworks. Retrieved 2009-08-18.
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