Thanks, Niels, that was a great, encouraging read!
Randy
On January 31, 2012 at 4:42 PM Niels Mayer <[email protected]> wrote:
> This one definitely deserves some mention regarding Qt marketing. Of
> special note is the source, an investment site "Motley Fool" :
>
>
http://beta.fool.com/seasonedgeek/2012/01/30/nokia-app-developers-choice/1475/
> "Nokia - The App Developer’s Choice"
> ....................................
>
> The other thing it appears the investing world missed was Nokia’s
purchase
> of Trolltech in 2008.
>
>
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jan2008/gb20080128_783831.htm
>
> Let me tell you as both a developer with over twenty years in IT and a
> technical author with two books written on the Qt cross platform
> application development framework, Qt really is the Holy Grail. The first
> books I ever wrote in IT were on ZAF (Zinc Application Framework) during
> the days of DOS and C++. At the time, Zinc was the best of a bad
situation
> and the only framework to support DOS, Windows, OS/2, and MAC from the
same
> set of source.
>
> Many other products have come to the cross-platform table professing to
> bring with them a Utopian feast only to leave developers hungry and
> heart-broken. Java, in particular, spouting its “Write Once Run Anywhere”
> slogan, ended up giving us a “Write Once, run if they have the exact same
> JVM on the exact same operating system with the exact same memory and the
> exact same security, otherwise, you’re on your own.”
>
> Then we had Microsoft foist .Net on the world. Write once and run on any
> machine that happened to be running that exact version of Windows with
the
> same level of .Net framework updates applied, otherwise, best of luck to
> ya. In truth, much of the geek world browbeat Microsoft about the fact
> their “Web technology” was NOT cross-platform, which led to the growth of
> Mono. But Mono has the same pitfall as .Net -- t requires a LOT of stuff
> already be loaded on the target platform before it will run.
>
> I have no idea what those marvelous gentlemen imbibed at Trolltech to
come
> up with “Signals and Slots,” but that design strategy has officially
> delivered Utopia. Thanks to its OpenSource versions for KDE development
and
> regular application prototyping, this framework has expanded to meet all
> needs and is now being made available to all modern development
languages.
> App developers can now write one set of source code and compile for every
> handheld device out there. These same developers can also develop desktop
> and enterprise-level applications with the exact same tool set.
>
> You can do any amount of personal education and OpenSource development
you
> want with Qt, but, when your company decides a product should be sold,
you
> have to buy the licenses and support. This is a far cry from the days of
> DOS when Microsoft charged you $500 for a compiler and someone else
charged
> you another $400 for a database library and somebody else charged you
> another $450 for a screen library, all before you had written your first
> line of code.
>
> The other portion of this Utopia is the fact your App is natively
compiled
> and statically linked. You get the snap and speed of a pure executable
> (which cannot be matched by an interpreter no matter what Java developers
> claim), and the security of knowing it contained everything it needed.
> Absolute zero support issues from Apps needing conflicting and
incompatible
> versions of virtual machines and/or shared libraries.
>
> Qt doesn’t care what OS or device. App developers no longer care what OS
or
> device. Contract postings for Qt consultants with handheld experience
> routinely offer around $140/hour as billing rates. The days of
> one-trick-pony tool sets are over and Nokia owns the Holy Grail. Once the
> Microsoft money and contract run out, I wouldn’t be surprised to see
Nokia
> build a tablet or smart phone and let you choose what OS it should have
on
> it at time of purchase. Most of the App vendors will be right there
behind
> them.
>
> Times like this happen at most twice in a life time. Sit back and really
> appreciate the moment. This is a company that had a really long view.
Quite
> possibly the last publicly traded company left that has bothered to look
> beyond the end of next quarter. All of the stories were public in the
geek
> world, but how many of you actually sorted it out?.
>
> .....................................
>
> -- Niels
> http://nielsmayer.com
Randall (Randy) Arnold
Developer and Enthusiast Advocate
http://texrat.net
+18177396806
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