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I wonder who will be a candidate for buying it, depends how much Nokia will want to offload it for.

ajross 14y ago
Google has used it for some client apps (Earth, MusicManager). Skype uses it (though post-MS that seems subject to change). Intel already employs some of the senior Qt people. I think the most likely resting place will be a non-profit of some sort along the lines of the Mozilla foundation.
- sciurus 14y ago
  There is already a nonprofit reponsible for the project infrastructure. http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/09/12/qt-project/ http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/09/12/qt-project/ And a governeance model that looks open to the community. http://qt-project.org/wiki/The_Qt_Governance_Model http://qt-project.org/wiki/The_Qt_Governance_Model
hrktb 14y ago
I'd bet on RIM if they still have enough cash. They also integrate QT for their next platform (if it ever gets to see the light of day)
- untog 14y ago
  I think they already have their work cut out of their next platform without throwing yet another integration into it.
  - codedivine 14y ago
    Its not "yet another integration", Qt is already the base component of their Cascades framework which is RIM's preferred way of building BB10 apps.
ericsink 14y ago
I think Perforce should buy it.
- malkia 14y ago
  And bring back P4Win :)
utku_karatas2 14y ago
Embarc.. (oh, whoever owns Delphi right now, hard to even spell) who's been struggling for multiplatform solutions for some time. Though I'd not bet on it. Their management seems to have made all the wrong decisions in product development in the last 10+ years and has ridden Delphi, a platform which was always way ahead of its time, into irrelevance.
- tuukkah 14y ago
  Embarcadero Technologies (not so foreign a word in California: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarcadero_%28San_Francisco%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarcadero_%28San_Francisco%29)
sciurus 14y ago
Keep in mind that Nokia already sold off the commerical licensing rights to QT. I'm not sure how a sale would affect that. http://www.digia.com/en/Qt/ http://www.digia.com/en/Qt/
- bergie 14y ago
  Yep, Troll Tech (the company behind Qt before Nokia bought them) was making an annual revenue of about 25M€. I'm supposing this was partly licensing, and partly support and training http://blogs.kde.org/node/3235/ http://blogs.kde.org/node/3235/ With the licensing business gone through move to LGPL licensing and the Digia deal it would at least be hard to make Qt a business on its own again. So the probable acquirers are companies that are building products on Qt, like RIM or maybe some of the big embedded players. Intel would also be a possibility, I imagine.
malkia 14y ago
Autodesk - Maya, MotionBuilder, etc. - all based on Qt Sony uses it, at least the tools I've seen from them. Probably lots of other big companies do, but somehow avoid or it's too cheap for them to use it. I'm still puzzled how they were able to survive that long...

Google has used it for some client apps (Earth, MusicManager). Skype uses it (though post-MS that seems subject to change). Intel already employs some of the senior Qt people. I think the most likely resting place will be a non-profit of some sort along the lines of the Mozilla foundation.

sciurus 14y ago
There is already a nonprofit reponsible for the project infrastructure. http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/09/12/qt-project/ http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/09/12/qt-project/ And a governeance model that looks open to the community. http://qt-project.org/wiki/The_Qt_Governance_Model http://qt-project.org/wiki/The_Qt_Governance_Model

hrktb 14y ago

I'd bet on RIM if they still have enough cash. They also integrate QT for their next platform (if it ever gets to see the light of day)

untog 14y ago
I think they already have their work cut out of their next platform without throwing yet another integration into it.
- codedivine 14y ago
  Its not "yet another integration", Qt is already the base component of their Cascades framework which is RIM's preferred way of building BB10 apps.

ericsink 14y ago

I think Perforce should buy it.

malkia 14y ago
And bring back P4Win :)

utku_karatas2 14y ago

Embarc.. (oh, whoever owns Delphi right now, hard to even spell) who's been struggling for multiplatform solutions for some time. Though I'd not bet on it. Their management seems to have made all the wrong decisions in product development in the last 10+ years and has ridden Delphi, a platform which was always way ahead of its time, into irrelevance.

tuukkah 14y ago
Embarcadero Technologies (not so foreign a word in California: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarcadero_%28San_Francisco%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarcadero_%28San_Francisco%29)

sciurus 14y ago

Keep in mind that Nokia already sold off the commerical licensing rights to QT. I'm not sure how a sale would affect that. http://www.digia.com/en/Qt/ http://www.digia.com/en/Qt/

bergie 14y ago
Yep, Troll Tech (the company behind Qt before Nokia bought them) was making an annual revenue of about 25M€. I'm supposing this was partly licensing, and partly support and training http://blogs.kde.org/node/3235/ http://blogs.kde.org/node/3235/ With the licensing business gone through move to LGPL licensing and the Digia deal it would at least be hard to make Qt a business on its own again. So the probable acquirers are companies that are building products on Qt, like RIM or maybe some of the big embedded players. Intel would also be a possibility, I imagine.

malkia 14y ago

Autodesk - Maya, MotionBuilder, etc. - all based on Qt Sony uses it, at least the tools I've seen from them. Probably lots of other big companies do, but somehow avoid or it's too cheap for them to use it. I'm still puzzled how they were able to survive that long...