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Nokia Acquires Trolltech — Trolltech

Following the European Commission's unconditional acceptance of Nokia's acquisition of all the shares in Trolltech (5th June), Nokia today announced that it had officially acquired the Norwegian company, and the Oslo Stock Exchange will no longer list Trolltech ASA after today. See the above link for letters from Nokia to Trolltech customers and partners and the open-source community. Meanwhile, Lorn Potter notes that the (former) Trolltech offices where he works have received Nokia signage.

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The European Commission today announced that it has unconditionally approved Nokia's voluntary tender offer for all the shares in Trolltech, and Nokia will now proceed with the offer, including the compulsory acquisition of all shares in the company. The shares will be acquired by Nokia's Norwegian subsidiary, Nokia Norge AS. See this page for coverage of the takeover from Trolltech, including downloadable letters to the open-source community, to Trolltech customers and to partners.

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Trolltech has announced that Valgrind, "a programming tool suite for memory debugging, thread debugging, time profiling and space profiling", has won its first Qt Open Source Development Award. Valgrind got 28% of the votes cast and its developers win $3,000 (US); runners-up, with $1,000 each, are the keyboard-sharing tool Synergy and text editor Vim. There is a post about the award at the Trolltech Labs blog.

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From Trolltech's website (and also here at Nokia's site):

Nokia and Trolltech ASA have agreed that Nokia will make a public voluntary tender offer to acquire Trolltech; the offer is NOK 16 per share in cash, and holders of 35,024,830 shares (66.43% of the total) have irrevocably agreed to the sale; among those who have agreed are Haavard Nord (Trolltech founder), Vuonislahti Invest AS (controlled by founder Eirik Chambe-Eng), Teknoinvest and certain funds managed by Index Ventures. Nokia have said that they will continue releasing Qt on an open-source basis.

At KDE Dot News, Aaron Seigo notes that Nokia will also become a patron of KDE e.V. and the KDE Free Qt Foundation (which is licensed to release Qt under the BSD licence should Trolltech, or its successors, cease doing so under the GPL) and last week, Messrs Nord, Chambe-Eng and Lee Williams of Nokia wrote this letter to the KDE community asking "for ideas and comments on improving their relationship with the open source community".

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From Trolltech website:

Trolltech today announced a partnership with Broadcom, "a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications", to develop a complete Voice-over-IP (VoIP) development platform for IP manufacturers. The platform is to be based on Broadcom's BCM1103 VoIP processor and BCM1180 video and multimedia co-processor and Trolltech's Qtopia.

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Trolltech has announced that its co-founder Eirik Chambe-Eng has stepped down as co-CEO of the company (something Norwegian law allows), leaving Haavard Nord the sole CEO. Mr Chambe-Eng has done this because he is suffering from age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which causes deterioration of the eyesight, and "the stress and workload associated with being CEO of a public company is not compatible with this condition". However, he will continue to work with the company.

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Trolltech Expands its Qtopia VoIP Offering with Acquisition (from Trolltech website)

Trolltech announced earlier this week that it had acquired FONAV, a company which develops a SIP-based communications platform using Qtopia, which offers VoIP, email and Jabber-based talk. The company has been running since 2006 and all employees are to be incorporated into the Trolltech office in Redwood City, California.

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Trolltech news: Trolltech Establishes Wholly-owned Subsidiary in China

Trolltech has announced that it has opened a subsidiary in China to replace the Representative Office it opened there in 2005. The company will be concerned predominantly with the embedded devices sector. Contact details are available at the above link; the address of the China office (if it's the same address) is on this page.

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Trolltech yesterday announced that its Australian subsidiary had moved buildings: its new address is Level 1, 53 Brandl St., Eight Mile Plains, Brisbane Technology Park, in Queensland. The site opened in 1999, and is the development hub for Qtopia with a staff of around 50. An open house is to be held on 9th March, when the new building is officially opened by the MP John Mickel, Minister for State Development.

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Trolltech has announced that its US subsidiary has moved to larger premises in Redwood, CA. The new offices measure over 15,000 sq ft and is near to the offices of Oracle and Electronic Arts.

New Address: Trolltech Inc, 555 Twin Dolphin Drive, Suite 280, Redwood City, CA 94065. Phone +1 650 551-1676, fax +1 650 551-1851.

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Trolltech today announced that it had completed its IPO (initial public offering), with 7.5 million shares (at 16 NOK per share) being subscribed after the company listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange, with 94% of the shares allocated to the institutional offering and 6% to the retail offering; of the former, 65% of the demand came from within Norway. The company now has more than 300 shareholders.

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Trolltech have announced six dates for regional developer conferences this year, in cities across the US and Europe. The US cities listed are Chicago, Houston TX, Boston MA; in Europe: Cambridge, Paris and Hamburg. Pricing is $199 in the US and €199 in Europe. Speakers listed are Eirik Chambe-Eng, Matthias Ettrich, Andreas Hanssen, Marius Bugge-Monsen, Gunnar Sletta, Scott Collins, Jasmin Blanchette and Trenton Schulz. For full details, including schedule:

Trolltech - Trolltech Developer Days 2005

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From Trolltech Newsroom:

Trolltech has released Teambuilder 1.3, "a distributed build system that takes advantage of the spare computational power in a networked group of workstations to drastically reduce compilation times for all users". It is available for Linux, IRIX and Solaris. Sales contact and licensing details here; no open-source licence seems to be available.

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From QDevBlog:

Matthias Ettrich has posted a defence of Qt's macros in which he claims that on certain discussion fora like OSNews, "even the most verbal critics are finally running out of arguments", and the only one left is the addition of introspection to C++ through the use of macros like "signals", "slots", "emit" and so on:

The complaint comes from people that prefer other languages, and consequently they dislike Qt for making the life of C++ programmers easier. We wrote Qt, we know it is not a “pure” C++ framework, just like C++ is not a “pure” language. Qt makes use of the C-subset of C++, including the preprocessor. And it makes very good use of it. What made C++ the most successful programming language on the planet is its pragmatic design, and its compatibility with C. It’s a meta language, a language powerful enough to be extended to something as beautiful and easy to work with as Qt.

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From Trolltech web site:

Trolltech report that its Qtopia Phone Edition has received the 2005 Editor's Choice Award from Open Source World, a Chinese-based journal with a circulation of 40,000 supervised by the Chinese Information ministry, for "Best Embedded Linux Platform". OSW's deputy editor in chief Mr. Sun Zhiyong said this of the product:

Trolltech's Qtopia Phone Edition is the leading application platform and user interface for Linux-based wireless devices. Manufacturers and designers can use the Qtopia Phone Edition to build feature-packed phones while maintaining complete control of branding and user experience. With these exceptional features, Trolltech's Qtopia Phone Edition has proven itself to be the best embedded Linux platform.

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Trolltech today reported on its website that from next Monday (5th December) it will be in new premises; its new mailing address will be Trolltech AS, Sandakerveien 116, PO Box 4332 Nydalen, NO-0402 Oslo. Their phone and fax numbers will remain unchanged. They say they have grown out of their current premises. Contact details for the new site will be found here as from the 5th.

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Trolltech is supporting a one-day event in Beijing on the 29th of this month called Chinese Mobile Phone Leadership: Leveraging Linux, at the Kerry Centre Hotel. It's "an exclusive conference which will bring together key stakeholders in the Chinese wireless phone market to discuss the strategic importance of Linux-based phones". Participants include MontaVista, Opera Software, Pollex, Teleca, Intel and a number of Chinese mobile phone companies. The event is organised by the China Academy of Telecommunications Research (CATR) of the Ministry of Information Industries (MII). Information in English about the CATR and registration links here.

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Trolltech are to hold two breakfast seminars at the upcoming Linux World Expo in Frankfurt. The seminars are on 17th November; there is a welcome speech by Elvind Throndsen, Qt Product Manager, at 8am; a speech by Qt Developer Harald Fernengel on "Linux Development with Qt" at 8.15am, and one by Scott Collins on "Shaping Thinking with UI" at 9am. The event is free, but there are only 45 places, and registration (at link above) will close on 11th November.

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From Trolltech web site:

Trolltech has announced at the San José Developer Day that it is co-founding the Open Source Development Lab's new Mobile Linux Initiative, "a new working group focused on accelerating the adoption of Linux in the rapidly-growing mobile market". Trolltech, along with MontaVista, Motorola, Wind River and PalmSource, "will work on Linux operating system technical challenges, foster development of applications for Linux-based mobile devices, deliver requirements definition documents and use cases, and host complementary open source projects that support the initiative".

It is also to become an active participant in the Linux Standards Base Desktop Project, established "to foster industry collaboration to standardize common libraries and application behavior across the Linux desktop". Other participants include IBM, HP, Mandriva, Novell, Xandros and Linspire.

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From Trolltech web site, via OSNews:

Trolltech has appointed Benoit Schillings, among those who founded the Be company and its operating system BeOS, as its Chief Technology Officer. Schillings has more recently been working for Openwave, where he was responsible for the "structure, design and operation" of version 7 of their phone suite. Trolltech have also appointed Dr Karsten Homann as Vice-President of Professional Services, where he "will be responsible for designing an organization that offers training, engineering integration and consultancy services in close cooperation with Trolltech’s existing partners". Homann was formerly vice-president of Next Generation and software VP at Siemens.

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Trolltech note on their special events page that Trolltech's Scott Collins is to give a presentation, "Introduction to Qt 4", at the upcoming Frankfurt Linux World Expo (15th-17th Nov 2005). Collins' speech will be on the 16th at 6pm and is to last one hour. The presentation will be in English; here's an excerpt from the details on the Expo website:

It will highlight the major changes in Qt4 from previous releases, and show just how little code you need to achieve even very complex behavior. Key new facilities examined are: the painting engine (bringing easy double-buffering, alpha-blending, and more); the model/view framework; the improved text-rendering engine; database machinery; networking changes; and improvements in the thread facilities.

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Trolltech is present at the ARM Developers' Conference, to be held in Santa Clara, CA, which started today and finishes Thursday (6th Oct). There is a vast number of presentations and tutorials on numerous subjects to do with developing on the platform, mostly used in embedded devices. Online registration is now closed, but you can still register at the door; conference admission costs $495 per day and entry to the exhibition hall, including keynotes, panels and special events is "complimentary".

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Trolltech has announced that it has extended its deadlines for places at its upcoming Developer Days at "Early Bird" prices; the new deadlines are 23rd September for San Jose and 7th October for the Munich event. Additional courses have been announced; Trolltech say that no more will be added after today.

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Trolltech is to hold Developer Days in Munich (19 Oct) and San Jose, California (2 Nov). Agenda (Munich, San Jose) includes presentations from Trolltech executives and developers, and from KDE representatives. Intensive training courses are to take place the day before in San Jose, and the day after in Munich. All the courses are to be held in English.

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From dot.kde.org:

Trolltech, makers of the Qt application development framework used by KDE and the Qtopia application development platform for embedded Linux devices, is proud to announce their full-time sponsorship of KDE developer Aaron Seigo. This arrangement will enable Aaron to devote his full time and attention to KDE software projects such as Plasma, which aims to reshape the desktop, as well as to engage in greater Open Source community participation and support.

"It's amazing to be given the opportunity to concentrate on KDE, especially with KDE4 approaching," said Aaron Seigo, "This certainly underlines Trolltech's commitment to the Open Source community, and I really couldn't ask for a better group of people to have as a partner for such a project."

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From Trolltech newsroom:

Trolltech®, provider of leading technologies for Linux and cross-platform software development, today announced that Juha Christensen, a well-known leader and pioneer in the mobile industry, and Tod Nielsen, an expert in systems software and developer marketing, have joined the company's board of directors.

Continue reading "Two new directors for Trolltech" »

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