Qt Goes to Digia

First thing Thursday morning a desperate, financially struggling Nokia said it was selling off Qt, the commercial and open source cross-platform development platform it acquired when it bought Trolltech in 2008 for upwards of $150 million. Actually the news came from Digia, the publicly owned Finnish software house that’s taking Qt off Nokia’s hands. It picked up the Qt (say cute) licensing business from Nokia last year and now it’s getting the technology and developers. Terms were not disclosed but it’s assumed Digia is paying nowhere near the $150 million originally spent on Trolltech to defend its own operating systems against the iPhone.

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