Knut, I wish this thread had a "thank you" button, for I would have pressed it for your post.
-Sivan On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Knut Yrvin <knut.yr...@nokia.com> wrote: > 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). I have a hunch that very good things will come out of this. About porting Qt to windows phone, that could be perhaps possible if we get a proper non interpreted compilation environment there. Not sure the community can afford it and register as an organization permitted. > >> 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. +++1 , personally I regret not concentrating on just Qt from the first place with the MeeGo dance. Platforms come and go (anybody remembering Qtopia?) , but Qt is still here and will be here for long time as I see its many corporate customers like Autodesk as one prominent example. > > 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 > Being the most enjoyable FW to develop with so far for the areas it targets, I don't see why it should be any less. Qt on android is not just "there". There's an eveyday need by develoeprs that only it can fill. > (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 :) ) And interesting site you've found there, even just for the glance of the eye :) -Sivan _______________________________________________ MeeGo-community mailing list MeeGo-community@meego.com http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-community http://wiki.meego.com/Mailing_list_guidelines
