Trolltech and Opera aim to get Linux on the road (Heise Online)

[Posted July 6, 2005 by cook]

Heise Online looks at a joint effort by Opera and Trolltech. "Opera, the Norwegian vendor of the web browser of the same name, and Norwegian software firm Trolltech, the developer of the C++ framework Qt for the KDE Unix/Linux desktop among others things, have entered into a strategic partnership. Their joint efforts will focus on products for mobile communications and home entertainment, as Opera announced today. The Qtopia development environment and software platform for mobile devices will be combined with Opera. In addition, the two firms will be collaborating on marketing campaigns. They intend to strengthen the position of the Linux operating system on the markets for mobile and home electronics."