Nokia officially acquires Trolltech

17 June 2008 – Espoo, Finland – On June 5th, 2008 European Commission announced that it had unconditionally approved Nokia’s voluntary tender offer for all the shares in Trolltech ASA (OSE: Troll). Nokia today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Trolltech, a recognized software provider with world-class software development platforms and frameworks.

In addition to the key software assets, the Trolltech team will play an important role in accelerating the implementation of Nokia's software strategy. This will enable Nokia to accelerate the cross-platform software strategy for mobile devices and desktop applications, and develop our Internet services business.

Oslo Stock Exchange has decided to delist Trolltech ASA. Last day of listing will be June 17, 2008.

Key Messages

• The acquisition supports Trolltech's company vision of driving Qt adoption in the commercial and open source markets (Qt Everywhere).
  
• The acquisition of Trolltech will enable Nokia to accelerate the cross-platform software strategy for mobile devices and desktop applications, and to develop its Internet services business.
• With Nokia, Trolltech’s Qt technology will grow significantly in the PC and mass-volume mobile devices markets
• Nokia plans to continue to develop Trolltech’s products and continue to drive sales to new and existing customers
• Trolltech has benefited greatly from the feedback the community has been providing while using Qt to develop free software. We respect the symbiotic relationship Qt has with the community and we wish to continue and enhance this relationship.

Open Letter to the Open Source Community	Letter to Trolltech Customers	Letter to Trolltech Partners
... We will continue to actively develop Qt and Qtopia. We also want to underline that we will continue to support the open source community by continuing to release these technologies under the GPL ...	... Being acquired by Nokia, we will continue to provide you with the most advanced cross-platform software framework for desktop and devices in the market. There will be further investments in Qt and Qtopia ...	... We will invest to continuously deliver world leading software in accordance with customer needs, and partners will continue to be a key ingredient to deliver customer solutions ...

Trolltech’s Qt-based technology facilitate application development for multiple platforms and devices

28 January 2008 – Nokia and Trolltech ASA today announced that they have entered into an agreement that Nokia will make a public voluntary tender offer to acquire Trolltech ...

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Frequently Asked Questions

Here you can find the most frequently asked questions with regard to Nokia's offer to acquire Trolltech.  These will continuously be updated in the coming days.  Please note that questions are purely from Trolltech's perspective.