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I'm not too much concerned by this, but it does not sound like a good move. > The unified web page will give a broad overview of the Qt technology, both enterp
by onli 12y ago
I'm not too much concerned by this, but it does not sound like a good move.
> 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.
So, the new web page will still have to be fragmented, because it has to serve open source and business visitors. Who speak a completely different language and look for different information.
Might be a good thing if it leads to a better website, might reflect good changes, but that alone sounds rather complicated. In my eyes it is not bad to have a fragmentation between sites targeting business users and those who do not, and it seems sound to have the one for business users in the reign of the company.
The new company seems to be the real news (at least it was new to me), that Qt will be managed by a company focussing solely on Qt.
- antocv 12y agoYeah, but the new company will be 100% owned by Digia. So basically this is a nice move from Digia to consolidate its ownership and leadership of Qt. I guess its similar to what Google does.
- toyg 12y agoOr a move from Digia to prepare a sale - it's much easier to sell something like QT if you also include all the relevant developers in one nice package. Or maybe it's a way to insulate Digia from losses resulting from QT operations, who knows? I have to say I'm happy they'll review the installer though; ever since they started packing their own compiler, I got the feeling things became a bit more chaotic than they were.
- octo_t 12y agoplenty of opensource-but-with-enterprise-offerings do the exact same thing, with high levels of success (although I can't think of any examples of this off the top of my head)
- Groxx 12y agoVarious *nix flavors, MySQL, Asterisk...
- e15ctr0n 12y agoAlso, see Wordpress[0][2] and Vanilla Forums[1][3]. They both offer an open source version that you can download and self-host, and a commercial offering which they host and you can customize through a limited set of themes and plugins. Open source, community edition: [0] http://wordpress.org/ http://wordpress.org/ [1] http://vanillaforums.org/ http://vanillaforums.org/ Hosted version with customization via themes and plugins: [2] https://wordpress.com/ https://wordpress.com/ [3] http://vanillaforums.com/ http://vanillaforums.com/
- onli 12y agoI would have counted wordpress as a counter example: they offer both, but on different sites (wordpress.com vs wordpress.org).