Finnish software company Digia announced today that it is acquiring the Qt software business from Nokia. Digia plans to pick up where Nokia left off: continuing Qt development, renewing the toolkit’s focus on cross-platform support.
Qt is an open source software development toolkit that was originally created by Norwegian software company Trolltech. Nokia acquired Trolltech in 2008 and subsequently transitioned Qt to an open governance model and a more permissive licensing scheme. Nokia had originally intended to use Qt to provide a unified development framework that would work across Symbian and MeeGo.
Digia says that it’s going to bring back a strong focus on the desktop and will introduce support for Windows 8. The company will also expand official support for the toolkit to additional mobile platforms, including Android and iOS
source : http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/08/digia-to-acquire-qt-business-from-nokia-port-it-to-android-and-ios/
