标题:Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia
作者:dbzhang800
日期:2012-08-09 15:20
内容:
Digia, the software powerhouse listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki exchange (DIG1V), today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Qt software technologies and Qt business from Nokia. Following the acquisition Digia becomes responsible for all the Qt activities formerly carried out by Nokia. These include product development, as well as the commercial and open source licensing and service business. Following the acquisition, Digia plans to quickly enable Qt on Android, iOS and Windows 8 platforms.
One of Digia's key objectives with this acquisition is to improve its position within the Qt ecosystem by further strengthening Qt's R&D capabilities and expanding its reach on many more platforms than ever before. Since Digia acquired the Qt Commercial licensing business from Nokia in March 2011, the operation has continued to be successful and has grown substantially. Digia forecasts the acquisition's impact on its 2012 revenues to be positive. In the following years, Digia forecasts the Qt business to grow. As part of the transaction, a maximum of 125 Qt people from Nokia will transfer to Digia, mostly based in Oslo, Norway and Berlin, Germany. This business transaction will significantly strengthen Digia's product business and supports Digia's strategic objective to grow internationally.
Digia encourages all current ecosystem members to continue working on improving Qt with full confidence in Digia's continued investment to make Qt the leading cross-platform development framework. Digia will work with ecosystem members to secure a successful release of Qt5 and is committed to continuing the Qt Project in order to maintain Qt's availability under both open source and commercial licenses.
"We are looking forward to welcoming the Qt team to Digia. By adding this world class organization to our existing team we plan to build the next generation leading cross-pl ..
#1 [XChinux 08-09 17:07]
这算是尘埃落定了吗!
#2 [longgiraffe 08-09 17:22]
不错，Qt在一个纯的软件服务商支持下， 有望对多平台更好的支持，尤其是嵌入式领域。
#3 [314361768 08-09 18:13]
心终于落下了。Qt的道路没被堵死。舒服多了。
#4 [5级地震 08-09 18:57]
” Digia plans to quickly enable Qt on Android, iOS and Windows 8 platforms.“那太好了
#5 [tompsontan 08-09 19:02]
好消息，Qt不但没死，还会有更好的未来！！！meego也是！