OSLO and PALO ALTO January 8 2004--Trolltechยฎ today appear a common challenge for Macยฎ developers. The challenge is for the best commercially developed and chargeless software from bags of accomplished software appliance developers worldwide. The purpose of the challenge is to access the amount of applications on Mac OS Xยฎ, and to appearance the abeyant of Qtยฎ on the Mac platform.
Eligible entries can be any English accent adaptation of a software appliance developed using Qt/Mac 3.
3 on Mac OS X 10.3 or later. Appliance entries are disconnected into three categories:
1. Best Original Chargeless Qt Application
Individual/community developed appliance using the Qt/Mac Chargeless Edition
2. Best Ported Chargeless Qt Application
Individual/community developed appliance originally accounting with Qt/X11 Chargeless Edition for UNIXยฎ/Linuxยฎ and ported to Mac OS X using the Qt/Mac Chargeless Edition
3. Best Original Bartering Qt Application
Individual or aggregation developed appliance using the Qt/Mac Professional or Enterprise Edition
The challenge winners will be awarded with iPodsโ„ขand a adventitious to win a Power Mac G5.
For anniversary category, aboriginal cost will win a 40GB iPod and the agent up will win a 20GB iPod. Deadline for appointment applications is 6:00 p.m. PST, May 7, 2004. An all-embracing champ of the challenge will aswell be called and accept a Power Macยฎ G5!
The challenge is accessible to individuals who are absolute software developers and to software companies. Individual developers may access works created alone or in accord with added acceptable contestants. The acceptable entries will be appear in affiliation with Apple's Common Developer Conference 2004.
โ€œTrolltech is actual aflame about this contest,โ€ said Eirik Chambe-Eng, co-founder and President of Trolltech. โ€We ambition to animate developers to acquaintance the affluence with which Qt-based applications can be ported to the Mac - and to appearance Mac developers that if you are searching for a C++, Aqua attending and feel, built-in achievement another on the Mac, Qt is what you're searching for.โ€
For added advice on the challenge appointment www.trolltech.com/qtmaccontest or appear to our angle SIP2 at the Mac Tech Center at MacWorld 2004 - San Francisco, CA, January 6-9.
About Trolltech:
Trolltechยฎ is a software aggregation with two flagship products: Qtยฎ and Qtopiaยฎ. Qt is a multi-platform C++ appliance framework developers can use to address single-source applications that run -- natively -- on Windows, Linux, UNIX, Mac OS X and anchored Linux. Qt has been acclimated to body bags of acknowledged bartering applications worldwide, and is the base of the accessible antecedent KDE desktop environment. Qtopia is the aboriginal absolute appliance ambiance congenital for anchored Linux, and is acclimated in Sharp's band of Zaurus PDAs.
Trolltech is headquartered in Oslo, Norway, with offices in Brisbane, Australia, and Palo, mac, Alto, California. Added about Trolltech can be begin at http://www.trolltech.com.
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