Nokia to Buy Software Developer Trolltech for $153M

[praka123]

just found:

Nokia to Buy Software Developer Trolltech for $153M

Nokia hopes to use Trolltech's expertise to improve the interfaces on its S40 mobile phone and S60 smartphone platforms.


Nokia has offered to buy Trolltech, the Norwegian developer of a widely used application framework, for 844 million Norwegian kroner (US$153 million) in cash. Nokia hopes the Trolltech development team will give its own software efforts a boost.


Trolltech develops Qtopia, a framework used to build user interfaces for mobile and embedded devices, and Qt, a cross-platform application development framework.



Nokia hopes to use Trolltech's expertise to improve the interfaces on its S40 mobile phone and S60 smartphone platforms, but Trolltech targets many software platforms with its application frameworks.

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*www.pcworld.com/article/id,141871-c,mergersacquisitions/article.html

Hmm..still Kde ppl can be calm as qt is licensed as GPLv2 and GPLv3

 

[Zeeshan Quireshi]

I don't think there's any need to worry as Nokia has already stated that they'll continue producing Qt under GPL License .

I think the main reason for Trolltech's takeover was Qtopia , Nokia could see it as a viable alternate platform to S60 . Now they just kiled the cmopetition !

(Like Adobe did by taking over Macromedia )

UIQ has only a small market-share , so Nokia's has the monopoly now .

 

[MetalheadGautham]

Phew... QT is still GPLed. Else I would have suicided.

 

[mehulved]

Hmm..still Kde ppl can be calm as qt is licensed as GPLv2 and GPLv3

*www.kde.org/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.php
And please don't mix your opinions within the article.