“Trolltech says the emergence of Linux on developer and user
desktops helped make 2004 a banner year for Qt, its cross-platform
development framework. Qt provides a C++ API, along with
compile-time translation software that lets developers build native
applications for a variety of platforms from the same code
base.“According to Trolltech, Qt sales grew 40 percent in 2004, with
3,000 companies developing commercial applications around the
framework…”