Two recent articles cover the success of Trolltech and their product Qt 4, on which KDE 4 will be based. 'Trolltech: A case study in open source business' looks at the continued growth of the company based on dual licenced Free Software. The article describes what KDE and Trolltech gain from each other, including user feedback to Trolltech and sponsored developers for KDE. The Australian Computerworld declares that Qt 4 raises the bar for cross-platform app dev tools. They cover the separate modules of Qt 4 and the cross-platform quality, giving it a 9.2 out of 10 approval rating.
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Do you have $3,300 dls to buy a Qt license?
No. I use the open source version because my apps are open source (or proprietary in-house).
But an application developer can pay for the license, because by using Qt, he will save time developing his program, and therefore he will safe money overall. He spends $3300 up front, but requires a month less in development time, so he saves the equivalent of a month's wage for as many developers as he has.
If you've never used Qt, you won't understand or believe this, but it's the truth. I'm in the fairly unique position of having developed two applications with the same feature set, but one using MFC and one with Qt. The Qt version required less code (and less time) to implement, plain and simple.
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2005-07-06
There's nothing wrong, but when the price of a single license is to exagerated don't spect it to be the product of choice, with better and cheaper options out there.
That's the same old and always ridiculous statement, for anyone doing serious software development the price is peanuts. And greatly outweight by the benefits. And from TFA the voice of the IT management understands this: Qt users have known for a long time that they enjoy an excellent library at a terrific price.