Digia Spinning Off Qt Division Into New Company 59
An anonymous reader writes with news that, after a six year journey, Qt will once again be maintained by a standalone company. From the Digia weblog:
... Even though the open source project and the commercial side of Qt are highly dependent upon each other, they have over the last years drifted apart. ... Because of the separation between the open source and commercial offerings, we often end up competing against ourselves instead of competing against other technologies. ... We are now starting a conscious effort to overcome these problems. As you might have read, Digia has decided to move the Qt business into a company of its own. Thus we will soon have a company (owned by Digia), that will focus 100% on Qt. At the same time we would like to take the opportunity and retire qt.digia.com and merge it with the content from qt-project.org into a new unified web presence. The unified web page will give a broad overview of the Qt technology, both enterprise and open-source, from a technical, business and messaging perspective.
Re:Can't beat the Micro$oft Machine (Score:5, Informative)
I don't know one single person who uses QT for a serious, money making program.
Off hand, I can think of at least three S&P 500 companies who disagree with you: Autodesk uses it for Maya. Altera uses it for Quartus. And Microsoft (according to you, they "won") use it for Skype. However, there are countless other companies out there who use it. They don't all advertise it, though, so you're probably running programs that use Qt without realizing it. Companies that purchase the commercial license aren't required to announce prominently that they use Qt, and Qt by default uses native widgets wherever possible, so it's not always obvious whether you're using Qt or not.