[Interest] Is Nokia officially done with Qt?

[Konstantin Tokarev]

15.06.2012, 19:42, "Till Oliver Knoll" <till.oliver.knoll at gmail.com>:
> 2012/6/15 Jason H <scorp1us at yahoo.com>:
>
>>  Bleak? I was annoyed when Nokia took over TT, because substantial the resources got moved to mobile. And I hated the preferred Symbian-was-the-favoriate updates.
>>
>>  ..., especially web services (consuming/providing) ...
>
> That's not so bad. After all, Qt was initially invented as a *desktop*
> framework. And I'm still glad that it is one of the most pleasant
> cross-platform ones to use!
>
> Anyway, I guess today, if you were serious about "web apps" (yes, I
> know, quite a stretch from "web services", you'd go the HTML 5 way...
>
> Qt/C++ on a server? Web Services? XML? Agree, that could get some love
> (I'm not an actual user in those area though - the Qt streaming XML
> parser is good enough for me).
>
>>  ... Glad the mobile distraction is over with. Let's get back to taking on .Net and Java..
>
> Talking about which: if you were one of the unlucky ones to have bet
> on the MS Silverlight horse - well, bad luck: it's dead! Microsoft
> decided that HTML 5 is the way to go... Java on the webbrowser? Long
> time dead! JSP? Well, I'm still using it for that ;) Java on the
> desktop? Dead... (at least on the Mac you sure will win the price of
> the "Most Loved App").

Don't confuse "dead" and "out of trend". Even if java applets and desktop applications
are not "mainstream" for a long time, they are still usable and are being used by some
folks.

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Regards,
Konstantin