NewsForge: SourceXtreme Aims to Move Windows Developers to Linux | Linux Today

NewsForge: SourceXtreme Aims to Move Windows Developers to Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 21, 2004

“A small Philadelphia-based company may be about to
revolutionize the world of Windows application development, not by
creating a new proprietary technology, but by bringing proprietary
Windows features to Linux. Working with Qt, Trolltech’s
cross-platform toolkit, MinGW, a minimalist set of GNU utilities
for Windows, and Wine, a free implementation of the Windows API,
SourceXtreme, Inc. has developed the ability to write Windows
programs without ever using Windows. Its goal is to make porting
applications to Qt trivial, and to move Windows developers onto a
free software platform…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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