“Troll Tech and Inprise/Borland today announced a technology
licensing agreement covering Troll Tech’s Qt graphical user
interface (GUI) application framework. As a result of the
agreement, Inprise/Borland can leverage Qt in its forthcoming
Delphi and C/C++ rapid application development (RAD) environment
for Linux code named Kylix. Financial terms of the deal were not
disclosed.”
“The Kylix project is planned to be the vehicle that delivers
mass application availability for Linux,” said Dale Fuller, interim
president and CEO of Inprise/Borland. “With Kylix, developers will
have the freedom of choice in Linux distributions and desktop
environments for both Open Source and commercial applications
development. Based on performance and cross-platform Linux and
Windows support, Qt was the obvious choice for Kylix.”
“We are fully committed to Linux. Our Qt technology is already
the basis of KDE, the wildly popular graphical desktop environment
for Linux,” said Haavard Nord, CEO of Troll Tech. “This
agreement further establishes Qt’s position as the leading
cross-platform GUI application framework. We are pleased to see
Inprise/Borland provide this high quality of professional software
development tools and services for Linux.“
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