Free Preview SDK Available to All Contestants... Dec. 3, 2001--San Jose, CATrolltech is launching a worldwide developer
contest to help generate applications for the Sharp Zaurus SL-5000D, the
first PDA from a major power in consumer electronics to ship with embedded
Linux.
"We thought this would be a great way to help introduce the world to the
Zaurus, to embedded Linux, and to Qtopia, our newly-named application
environment," says Haavard Nord, Trolltech's CEO. "These technologies give
users the first viable 'Third Way' in PDA computing, and we are very happy
to have been chosen by Sharp to provide the GUI framework, windowing
system, and application environment for this device."
The contest, scheduled to run from December 4, 2001 to February 11, 2002,
will offer prizes to applications in five categories: games,
entertainment/educational, business, system tools, and communications.
The prizes include $10,000 cash (USD), Sharp Zaurus SL-5000D PDAs, Laptops,
television and stereo equipment.
For more information, including the entry form, contest rules, and judging
criteria, please visit .
Trolltech has chosen three Linux luminaries to help judge the applications:
· Jerry Eplin, Technical Editor for LinuxDevices.com
· Jason Perlow, Senior Technical Editor for Linux Magazine
· Warwick Allison, Lead embedded developer for Trolltech.
Trolltech is also giving away free preview editions of the Qtopia SDK,
which is used to create freeware, shareware, and commercial applications
for the SL-5000D. All contest entrantsand owners of SL-5000Dsare entitled
to the free preview edition.
Qtopia is built on Qt, Trolltech's cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit. This
allows developers to create applications on the Windows, Linux/Unix, and
Mac OSX desktop. All applications created in the Qt framework can be
ported to the SL-5000D with a simple cross-compile.
Trolltech develops, supports, and markets Qt, Qt/Embedded, and Qtopia. Qt
and Qt/Embedded are C++ cross platform development frameworks (the embedded
version includes its own windowing system) that let programmers rapidly
build state-of-the-art GUI applications for desktop and embedded
environments using a "write once, compile anywhere" strategy. They have
been used to develop hundreds of successful commercial applications
worldwide. Qtopia is an embedded application environment that uses
Qt/Embedded to provide simple, powerful, intuitive, and flexible
application solutions for embedded systems. Trolltech is headquartered in
Oslo, Norway, with offices in Santa Clara, California, Brisbane, Australia,
and Seoul, South Korea.
