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SearchEnterpriseLinux: Trolltech President Explains the ‘Real Value’ of Open Source

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 8, 2005

[ Thanks to Peter
Parker
for this link. ]

Your company has just released Qt version 4. What new
functionality made it into the final cut of this
product?

Chambe-Eng: One thing is that we’re opening a
new market by having a server-side version. Previously, our
customers mostly created GUI applications. Now we have better
support for things like threading and XML handling to create
server-side software. There were also a lot of additions to the
graphics part, so you can now do really modern type user interfaces
with semi-transparency. You can [also] do animation in the user
interface…”


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