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The price of choice: Nokia's development platform QT program does not keep pace with changes. Last August, Nokia, after all its complexities, finally took QT as a unified development platform for its products for use by Third-party developers.　　However, as Nokia decided to co-operate fully with Microsoft this year, and said it would provide its software developers with the Microsoft SDK Development platform, as well as "sym bian", Qt also faced the problem of where to go. Yesterday, Nokia decided to sell QT to a Finnish company called "Digia".　　Although the voice from Nokia said that the sale of the QT business, rather than QT itself, but with the management of the owners, QT market performance, the future of developers and other "can not be big" problem, it seems that is no longer the responsibility of Nokia. The inevitable restructuring of the alliance with Microsoft has already determined the fate of Qt. In addition, according to the Nokia and Microsoft Cooperation Agreement, the latter will provide Nokia 1 billion of dollars, used for W Indow S mobile phone development and promotion. This makes it easier for Nokia to choose between Qt and the Microsoft SDK.　　It has also been said that Microsoft is so kind only to prevent Nokia from again to the embrace of Google. Working with Microsoft to bury the foreshadowing it is understood that Nokia decided to sell QT business licensing and service business to D Igia Company. QT, refers to a cross-platform application and user interface framework through which developers can create applications for sym Bian and M eeG o mobile operating systems.　　Nokia bought the Norwegian mobile phone software maker T Rolltech (funny Technology) with 1.5.3 Billion dollars, curve to get QT. By August 2009, Nokia's commitment to Qt remained "riveting", with its main actions including the development and transformation of QT, which was designed to help developers easily transform their original iphone software or a ndroid software into Nokia's sym bian or M.　　The Eego system is trying to keep its smartphone dominance by retaining Third-party developers who are increasingly moving to other platforms. However, the He Senliang, when Nokia announced the future of the main models using the Microsoft System, and "give up" Sym Bian, QT has fallen into an awkward position. Nokia had previously said that "QT development platform does not apply to Microsoft's smartphone operating system, which will be part of Nokia's ' future Breakthrough Strategy ', dedicated to developing next-generation mobile devices." "If Nokia told programmers to use both QT and W indow sphone tools (Microsoft SD K), Elop, the Nokia chief executive, said at the 2011 Mobile World Conference," It would spread the marketing budget and lead to confusion, "Elop. "Yesterday's news, as part of a co-operation agreement, will be paid by Microsoft to Nokia for more than 1 billion dollarsCost for the promotion and development of the W indows mobile phone. Selling QT suspected cost cuts on the other hand, Nokia will pay Microsoft for the W Indow s software it uses for its handsets, but that part of the cost will be offset by Nokia's cuts in its own software development budget.　　This will naturally include the original QT-oriented inputs. "In fact, Nokia has not completely put the treasure on QT, how much the nature of water test."　　"One close to Nokia told reporters that the amount of money and the size of the Trolltech in the year, the introduction of QT is only Nokia in the smartphone field to explore the" counterattack "an attempt, does not affect Nokia's core business, the revenue is not too much value. This makes some domestic software developers deep feelings. Guangzhou Kai all technology founder Lin Yu Thai said last year, the company had high hopes for Qt, but also a certain amount of input. Because in the process of communication with Nokia-related people, they can clearly feel their enthusiasm for Qt.　　In fact, QT does have its own advantages over the previous SYM Bian development platform. But there was a feeling of ' wool ' behind it. Lin Yu said that since Nokia worked with Microsoft and said it would provide developers with Microsoft's SD K development platform in the future, he realised that the direction of Nokia Mobile software was changing. "From a developer's point of view, we just want our products to be installed on more terminals." If Nokia's own phone software is not focused on QT development, we can only follow the direction. "The future of QT in the trading case is challenged by the" gradual abandonment of QT, "Nokia has tried to continue to distribute" reassurance "to QT based developers. A few days after finalizing cooperation with Microsoft, Nokia's official blog wrote that "retaining 200 million sym Bian users is critical and plans to sell 150 million sym bian handsets in the coming years, so Nokia needs to improve sym bian on QT basis."　　"In addition, the article also revealed that in the next few months Nokia will release QT Q Uick and QT SD K 1.1, when the QT developer community will be more prosperous." These statements do not seem to conflict with the current Qt-based trading case, as Nokia can still participate in the development of QT. However, the market management to others, the development of the power can be how much? Intriguing。 Where is the future of QT?　　Where is the "money" of the developer based on Qt environment? Public data show that the buyer D Igia is a Nasdaq-listed software development and services company, founded in 1997, has made many acquisitions in recent years. Under the agreement, Digia will receive 3,500 QT platform users (i.e. developers) and employ 19 Nokia consulting, sales and marketing employees.　　In addition, Nokia's QT Technology Support team will work with Digia next year. As for QT's first "new job", D Igia's plan ispromote it in desktops and embedded systems. Reporter Fangnan