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  TrollTech CEO Haavard Nord on Qt 3.3, Qtopia, .NET/Mono, Linux, More - OSNews.com
Trolltech is definitely hot about.NET on Windows but they are not so hot about it on Linux.
Trolltech is expected to have a new Qtopia UI for mobile phones out in a couple of months (minimum supported resolution is at 176x208).
Trolltech would like to stay "application-agnostic" on their embedded targets, and so they won't specifically pursue ports of Qt applications, in order to leave the field open to third party developers.
www.osnews.com /story.php?news_id=5908   (1025 words)

  
 Perforce Case Study: Trolltech
In 1999, Trolltech realized it needed to replace its existing software configuration management system, CVS, because CVS was unable to scale to meet its development needs.
Trolltech propagates changes regularly between branches, and managing this parallel development is important.
When Trolltech switched to Perforce, it was able to import its complete CVS repository.
www.perforce.com /perforce/success/trolltech.html   (562 words)

  
 Trolltech woos developers with "open" Linux phone
Trolltech, best known for development tools and Linux application stacks for phones and other mobile devices, will ship an "open" Linux-based phone in September.
Trolltech is positioning the Greenphone as the "first open Linux mobile device for application developers." It hopes the product will enable a variety of corporate and community developers to "create, modify, and test Linux-based mobile phone applications on a working GSM/GPRS device."
Trolltech's QPE has supported both touchscreens (popular in technology-driven Asia) and keypad interfaces (popular in convenience-driven markets such as Europe and the U.S.) since November of 2004.
www.linuxdevices.com /news/NS8030785497.html   (1143 words)

  
  A Qt Blog: Trolltech Archives
Trolltech note on their special events page that Trolltech's Scott Collins is to give a presentation, "Introduction to Qt 4", at the upcoming Frankfurt Linux World Expo (15th-17th Nov 2005).
Trolltech is present at the ARM Developers' Conference, to be held in Santa Clara, CA, which started today and finishes Thursday (6th Oct).
Trolltech, makers of the Qt application development framework used by KDE and the Qtopia application development platform for embedded Linux devices, is proud to announce their full-time sponsorship of KDE developer Aaron Seigo.
www.blogistan.co.uk /qt/trolltech   (1597 words)

  
  Trolltech - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trolltech was founded by Eirik Chambe-Eng and Haavard Nord in 1994.
Matthias joined Trolltech in 1998, and the last major Qt 1 release, 1.40, was made in September of that year.
Trolltech is mainly owned by its own employees (50.9%) and the Trolltech Foundation (4.48%).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trolltech   (1057 words)

  
 Qt (toolkit) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trolltech released Qt 4 on June 28, 2005 and introduced five new technologies in the framework:
Haavard Nord and Eirik Chambe-Eng (the original developers of Qt and the CEO and President of Trolltech respectively) began development of "Qt" in 1991, three years before the company was incorporated as Quasar Technologies, then changed the name to Troll Tech, and then to Trolltech.
This was in response to Trolltech's refusal to license Qt/Windows under the GPL on the grounds that Windows was not an open-source platform [4][5].
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Qt_toolkit   (1316 words)

  
 Trolltech offers fully reprogrammable mobile phone | CNET News.com
Trolltech's phone is priced at around $690 and comes with all the software and source code necessary to develop a complete mobile phone model, including core Linux operating system controls, a phone dialler, address book and camera application.
Trolltech aims to encourage everything from games to business-level applications to teen instant message devices to be developed using the open design of the Greenphone kit.
Trolltech, which held its initial public offering early last month on the Oslo Stock Exchange, supplies Linux mobile phone software controls to companies such as Motorola, the biggest seller of Linux-based phones to date.
news.com.com /Trolltech+offers+fully+...+phone/2100-1039_3-6105629.html   (742 words)

  
 Qt 4.0: About Trolltech   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Trolltech is an international software company with headquarters in Oslo, Norway, and with offices in Brisbane, Australia and Palo Alto, California.
The core team of designers at Trolltech started developing Qt in 1992, and the first commercial version of Qt was released in 1995.
At Trolltech, we continously work to improve and expand Qt to ensure that it always represents the state of the art in usability, look and feel, performance, and stability.
web.mit.edu /qt-dynamic_v4.0.0/www/trolltech.html   (357 words)

  
 Trolltech gets funding boost - ZDNet UK News
Trolltech is based in Oslo but it also has offices in the US and China.
Trolltech has close links with the KDE desktop environment, as its Qt environment was used to build it.
Trolltech's development environments are free to use if you are making open-source software, but developers have to pay to use the products to build proprietary software.
news.zdnet.co.uk /0,39020330,39199685,00.htm   (373 words)

  
 Trolltech Qtopia Greenphone and SDK Review | Linuxlookup
Trolltech has done everything in its power to convince the user that the Greenphone is not a consumer level device.
Trolltech is attempting to “ride on the shoulders” of such a community, hoping that their new platform will take off.
As a response, Trolltech has since changed the wording in its licensing with respect to the openness of the hardware.
linuxlookup.com /review/trolltech_qtopia_greenphone_and_sdk_review   (1857 words)

  
 Trolltech extends Qt for Windows : Technology
Trolltech, which offers open source software, has a dual licensing model based on the principle of fair exchange.
Eirik Chambe-Eng, Trolltech president and co-founder said, "Based on the huge success Trolltech has realized through dual licensing Qt on the Linux and Mac OS X platforms, we are confident that by releasing an open source version of Qt for Windows, Qt will become one of the premier development environments for Windows applications."
"Trolltech's business is strong, and we are thrilled that we are now in a position to meet the enormous community demand for an open source license option for Qt on Windows," he added.
www.earthtimes.org /articles/show/1599.html   (460 words)

  
 Trolltech Mailing Lists
If the robot is unable to match your request with any of the subscribers, the list administrator will do it within a few days, or write to you.
The list is intended for managers and programmers interested in add-on products or services for Qt, Qtopia, QSA and other Trolltech products, as well as companies offering such services and products.
Send the word "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the body of a message to marketplace-request@trolltech.com to be added to or removed from marketplace.
lists.trolltech.com   (1197 words)

  
 Eirik Chambe-Eng, President, Trolltech
Trolltech has a critical role to play in the Linux ecosystem.
Its Qt (pronounced "cute") application framework is at the heart of KDE (define), one of Linux's main graphical environments, the other being GNOME, which is based on the GTK+ framework.
Qtopia is a critical component for rolling out Mobile Linux and is used by Motorola among numerous other cell phone vendors.
www.internetnews.com /dev-news/article.php/3602626   (1245 words)

  
 LinuxPlanet - Interviews - Embedded Development on the Qt - An Interview with Trolltech CEO Haavard Nord
On February 12, Norway's Trolltech AS formally announced its relationship with IBM, which is using Trolltech's ATopia office application suite as part of its 405LP design.
The device demonstrated at Linuxworld was the first reference device using a combination of IBM software and TrollTech software.
A lot of people have suggested that an open source license for Java would strengthen the platform, but it's always seemed to me that Sun could learn something from TrollTech and adopt the kind of dual-track licensing that you have with the Qt libraries.
www.linuxplanet.com /linuxplanet/interviews/4673/1   (1272 words)

  
 Trolltech Goes Public
After 12 years in business, Trolltech on May 23 filed an application for listing on the OSE (Oslo Stock Exchange).
IPO rumors sprang up around Trolltech last fall, when the company hired Juha Christensen and Tod Nielsen in September, and then added Benoit Schillings and Dr. Karsten Homann in October.
Trolltech was founded in 1994 as Quasar Technologies, by Norwegian University of Science and Technology graduates Eirik Chambe-Eng and Haavard Nord.
www.eweek.com /article2/0,1895,1967189,00.asp   (921 words)

  
 Interview: Trolltech's President Eirik Eng   (Site not responding. Last check: )
You could also ask directly at Trolltech if they would be willing to just carbon copy that MSDN Academic Alliance thing including their EULA if that's what is needed to make you happy.
Trolltech has a "Qt Educational License Request Form" at http://www.trolltech.com/forms/eduprogram.html stating "The educational license is to be used on school hardware and premises for educational purposes.
Trolltech had a cool pamphlet at LinuxWorld that showed the different amount of code required with each platform.
dot.kde.org /1001294012   (3347 words)

  
 SPECIAL REPORT: Trolltech aims Linux/Qtopia at mobile phone market
Trolltech aims to change that, with its release today of a complete application software stack tuned to the requirements of the mobile phone market.
Trolltech's strategy of moving Qtopia beyond PDAs -- to mobile phones -- appears sound, given the realities of the current handheld market, as indicated by analyst research projecting a bright future for camera phones and other "feature-phones" at the same time the PDA market is experiencing stagnation.
Trolltech considers Qtopia "the de facto standard application platform for embedded Linux," and it certainly is true that Qtopia sees wide use, especially on PDAs such as Sharp's Zaurus line, Royal's LineaLX, and Softfield's MX-7.
linuxdevices.com /news/NS2574901485.html   (1540 words)

  
 Perforce Case Study: Trolltech
In 1999, Trolltech realized it needed to replace its existing software configuration management system, CVS, because CVS was unable to scale to meet its development needs.
Trolltech propagates changes regularly between branches, and managing this parallel development is important.
When Trolltech switched to Perforce, it was able to import its complete CVS repository.
frankenrouter.perforce.com /perforce/success/trolltech.html   (562 words)

  
 KDE Wiki - Trolltech Keynote Talk
Final point is that Trolltech is earning money and growing fast, new funds will be used as a good buffer in the bank.
Trolltech wants to compete on quality, features and ease of use, not on a lockin factor.
KDE was a watershed for Trolltech, Qt uses in Germany were very fast in 1999, that was very important for their sales.
wiki.kde.org /tiki-index.php?page=Trolltech+Keynote+Talk   (996 words)

  
 Trolltech sees a billion Linux phones | The Register
Trolltech's Qtopia has already notched up some impressive wins, and powers four Motorola phones including the A780.
Trolltech bets that the increasing complexity of midrange phones - especially with the demand for a robust music player - makes today's modem-based phones unsustainable in the long run.
Trolltech helped pioneer a dual license approach, and believes that the GPL doesn't hold the same appeal for hardware manufacturers that it does for software developers.
www.theregister.com /2006/05/04/trolltech_interview   (937 words)

  
 Trolltech Qtopia Greenphone and SDK Review | Linuxlookup
Trolltech has done everything in its power to convince the user that the Greenphone is not a consumer level device.
Trolltech is attempting to “ride on the shoulders” of such a community, hoping that their new platform will take off.
As a response, Trolltech has since changed the wording in its licensing with respect to the openness of the hardware.
www.linuxlookup.com /review/trolltech_qtopia_greenphone_and_sdk_review   (1867 words)

  
 IT Manager's Journal | Trolltech: Right place at right time?   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Trolltech also makes Qtopia, which is based on the embedded port of Qt and is what the company calls "the first comprehensive application environment built expressly for embedded Linux."
Trolltech utilizes a dual-license system in which free and commercial versions (licensed per seat) of its tools are available to developers.
TrollTech made it's mark on the world on the backs of Open Source developers, The only thing they licensed back to the community is an out dated version of QT.
www.itmanagersjournal.com /software/04/02/03/235204.shtml   (1334 words)

  
 Trolltech
Trolltech® is a world leader in delivering tools, components, and libraries for C++ developers across all major operating systems.
Trolltech products constitute a leading open source application development framework and are an integral part of the Linux desktop.
Trolltech is a second generation open source company with a dual licensing business model and provides development software to some of the largest companies in the world including Intel, IBM, Motorola, and Sharp, among thousands more.
www.lynuxworks.com /partners/company.php?ID=121   (181 words)

  
 Linux.com | Trolltech's Greenphone: A reasonable first effort
On the hardware side, you can read detailed specs at Trolltech's site, but essentially the Greenphone is an ARM-based GSM phone (unlocked) with both a mini-SD card slot and mini-USB connector for linking to a desktop computer.
Trolltech's Greenphone site claims that the source code to all of the bundled applications will be posted for download, but it is not yet available.
I hope that Trolltech is committed to supplying devices like Greenphone to open source developers over the long term; that it will iron out the kinks, fix the price point, and help make user-hackable smartphones a commodity.
enterprise.linux.com /enterprise/06/11/27/1937202.shtml?tid=122   (1886 words)

  
 NewsForge | Trolltech: A case study in open source business
Trolltech employees are encouraged to choose their own projects, and on "creative Fridays" they can work on anything they want.
Should Trolltech ever go bankrupt, or be bought out (something that could become an issue as Trolltech is rumored to be going public soon), and cease to be so free software-friendly, the KDE community would be able to continue Qt development.
TrollTech was on the verge of loosing its loyal hacker base to GTK in 1998, so it reluctantly decided to create the foundation and GPLed the code.
business.newsforge.com /business/05/10/03/155235.shtml   (1794 words)

  
 Linux / Trolltech's Qt Palmtop Environment - Tech Update - ZDNet   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Trolltech, developers of the well-known Qt application framework, recently released their Qt Palmtop Environment.
Recently Trolltech re-licensed Qt, so it can now be distributed freely under the GPL, or optionally under a commercial license.
While Qt itself targets Windows and X environments, the Qt Palmtop Environment is based upon Trolltech's Qt/Embedded, a version of Qt intended for small-footprint applications.
techupdate.zdnet.com /techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2663295-3,00.html   (528 words)

  
 Trolltech Joins OSDL
Trolltech provides standard middleware for Linux application development both the desktop and in consumer electronics.
"Trolltech plays an important role in spreading the use of Linux in new classes of products and applications that are integral to the desktop," said Stuart Cohen, CEO of OSDL.
Trolltech is headquartered in Oslo, Norway, with offices in Brisbane, Australia, and Palo Alto, California.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/01-20-2004/0002091916&EDATE=   (360 words)

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