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:2, Interesting)
There are a number of language bindings so that you can build Qt applications without writing a single line of C++. I've built medium sized desktop applications with Python and the pyside module. And it is pretty easy to do so. It is one of the best toolkits available for Python.
Another example, TortoiseHG, uses PyQt.