[Qt-interest] I see the Trolls are being sold to Digia

[Fabio Giovagnini]

Sorry guys, what about the future of KDE??



On Tuesday 08 March 2011 14:57:57 Atlant Schmidt wrote:
> Roland:
> 
>   The use of such "Kremlinology" is that many of us have to decide
>   whether to invest in Qt in the future, both personally and on behalf
>   of our employers. And based on Nokia's performance to date and
>   the external economic logic, one would be hard-pressed to endorse
>   making (further) investments in or creating further dependencies
>   upon Qt. Yet Qt remains a very powerful framework with definite
>   advantages so it would be a shame to turn away from it without
>   very good reasons...
> 
>   So we indulge in Kremlinology (Espooology? Elopology?).
> 
>                                    Atlant
> 
> 
> Reference:
> 
>   o http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremlinology
> 
> ________________________________
> From: qt-interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch.com at qt.nokia.com
> [mailto:qt-interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch.com at qt.nokia.com] On
> Behalf Of Roland Mueller Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 08:03
> To: qt-interest at qt.nokia.com
> Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] I see the Trolls are being sold to Digia
> 
> Hello,
> 
>  I think it's quite useless to speculate about plans Nokia has or has not.
> There *no trust* in Nokia's Qt politics since 11/02, the only thing IMHO
> Nokia-Trolltech could do, is to communicate a believable roadmap for what
> they want to use Qt (execpt use it still for Symbian) to the public.
> 
> -Roland
> 2011/3/8 Atlant Schmidt
> <aschmidt at dekaresearch.com<mailto:aschmidt at dekaresearch.com>>
> 
> Andre:
> > Perhaps Nokia is planning to jump into a new business
> > like the tablet market?
> 
>  Tablets? Unlikely.
> 
>  If that were the case and we were discussing an x86
>  tablet, Otellini would have had a much-more-positive
>  reaction than he did to the February 11 announcement.
>  You'll remember he described himself as "cursing like
>  Carol Bartz".
> 
>  If that were the case and we were discussing an ARM
>  tablet, I'd say "that market is sewn up" to an even
>  greater degree than is the smartphone market.
> 
>  Set top boxes? Perhaps there's room for disruptive
>  technology in that market.
> 
>  Vehicle telematics? Perhaps. At least all the investment
>  in the mobility APIs would pay off there. But then we're
>  not talking about the hundreds-of-millions of units that
>  Nokia is used to shifting. Perhaps the profit margins
>  are higher, though...
> 
>                            Atlant
> 
> 
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> m>] On Behalf Of Andre Somers Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 07:32
> To: qt-interest at qt.nokia.com<mailto:qt-interest at qt.nokia.com>
> Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] I see the Trolls are being sold to Digia
> 
> Op Di, 8 maart, 2011 1:15 pm, schreef Atlant Schmidt:
> > Thiago:
> >   My conclusions are based on sound economic principles.
> >   
> >   It doesn't matter what visions Sebastian has communicated
> >   to you or believes. It doesn't even matter what Elop has
> >   communicated or believes. The simple fact is that you're
> >   in the WinPhone business now, the entire corporation has
> >   been bet on that, and because of that, Qt has no future
> >   value to Nokia.
> >   
> >   So eventually, unless you see Microsoft adopting Qt or
> >   you see MeeGo becoming a smashing success and supplanting
> >   WinPhone, Qt has to go.
> >   
> >   Reaching any other conclusion requires believing in
> >   the impossible.
> 
> I believe that one of the aspects you may be missing, is that Nokia isn't
> just in the smartphone business (which will be migrated to MS WinPhone 7).
> What happens with all of the other devices Nokia produces, there has been
> little communication other that Qt is "being evaluated" for those. Perhaps
> that evaluation is further along than what has been communicated to the
> outside world? Perhaps Nokia is planning to jump into a new business like
> the tablet market?
> 
> André
> 
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