On Torsdag 29. september 2011, ext Robinson Tryon wrote: Robin Burchell got it right. I don't know about, or can comment on what Intel, Linux Foundation and other companies has planned for Tizen.
> The impression I've gotten over the last few months was that Nokia was > reducing their investment in Qt as a part of a move to an MS-Windows > phone stack. Actually we are hieing, and has been hieing for quite a while now. > Microsoft was changing up some of their APIs, and Nokia > was transitioning between OSes and application frameworks as well. The transition API mapping between Qt and MS API's goes both ways. We are also making it easier for developers from Microsoft 'tooling space' to program cross platform, cross devices with Qt, targeting non Windows Phone systems. Also the community project enabling Qt on Android is steaming ahead simplified by Qt Lighthouse. (My personal preference would be if a community project just went ahead of porting Qt to Windows Phone). > You sing the praises of Qt quite admirably, but your tune appears to be > quite different from the message I'm getting from other people at > Nokia. Obviously Nokia is in a stage of tough transition, impacting many employee. Being a leading phone manufacture to being a challenger, is a change in mindset, impacting all. Thousands of Symbian developers are transferred Accenture. There are factories being closed due to structural changes in what types of phones people buy. The only certainty being an engineer, is to adapt to changes. Qt is one of those change makers, and we are hiring Qt developers. Also there are a ~275% growth in demand for Qt programmers in US. Given that US is hit as hard as Europe with economical stagnation, it's quite interesting Qt has kept it's momentum: 1. http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=C%2B%2B+Qt&l=&relative=1 (The number jobs postings requiring Qt in China is larger than US, and Germany is almost as many job postings as in US). A side step, but kind of relevant for those being worried regarding their free software skills. The job trends at indeed.com is quite fun. Try to add 'Linux, Windows' (without the apostrophes) and press 'Find Trends', showing the 'Relative' scale. Jobs requiring Linux competence is constantly growing where Windows jobs has stagnated. It always make me optimistic for the future of free software and open standards ... (When you're at it, you may search for 'HTML5, Silverlight' too :) ) Best regards Knut Yrvin -- Qt Developer Days 2011 – REGISTER NOW! October 24 – 26, Munich November 29 – December 1, San Francisco Learn more and Register at http://qt.nokia.com/qtdevdays2011 _______________________________________________ MeeGo-community mailing list MeeGo-community@meego.com http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-community http://wiki.meego.com/Mailing_list_guidelines
