Star Nokia To Acquire Trolltech?
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 28th Jan 2008 09:33 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Qt Trolltech, the originator of Qt, which forms the basis of the Linux KDE desktop environment, is being acquired by Nokia, the world's number-one mobile phone vendor. Nokia expects its acquisition of Trolltech to accelerate its cross-platform software strategy for mobile devices and desktop applications, and to enhance its Internet services business. The original press release is also available. Update: "We will continue to actively develop Qt and Qtopia. We also want to underline that we will continue to support the open source community by continuing to release these technologies under the GPL."
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nilkki
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2007-10-26

Over 50? Where did you get that?
It has just broke over 40%: http://www.mobilemonday.net/news/nokia-market-share-breaks-40-per-c...

EDIT: fixed link

Edited 2008-01-29 11:36 UTC

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melkor Member since:
2006-12-16

And in Australia, it's way over 50%. Sorry, I should have made it clear that I was referring to local markets, country to country, and not globally. From memory, Nokia is weak in Europe, where Sony-Ericsson and Motorala are strong.

Dave

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