In the 14 years since Trolltech was started, there have been numerous releases of our flagship product, Qt. In 2000, Trolltech launched an embedded Linux product line -- Qtopia.

Trolltech has successfully established itself as a key player and major contributor in the open source world, with thousands of open source projects, most notably KDE, which is built with Trolltech technology. Trolltech is now owned by Nokia.

Additionally, Trolltech:

• has grown from 2 employees to over 250
• gained over 5,000 customers in 60 countries
• pioneered a successful dual-licensing business model
• opened offices in the US, Australia, China, Germany and regional offices in Japan, Korea and Taiwan
  

Highlights:

• 1994: Trolltech founded in Oslo, Norway
• 1996: First sale of Qt (to European Space Agency)
• 1998: Created the KDE Free Qt Foundation
• 1998: Released Qt/X11 under the QPL
• 1999: Qt 2 released
• 1999: Opened Australian office
• 1999: Received first-round funding
• 2000: Released Qt/Embedded
• 2000: Opened US office
• 2000: Released Qt/X11 under the GPL
• 2001: First Qtopia adoption (by Sharp Electronics)
• 2001: Qt 3 released
• 2002: Teambuilder released
• 2003: QSA released
• 2003: Released Qt/Mac under the GPL
• 2003: Introduces Qt Solutions
• 2004: Released Qtopia Phone Edition
• 2005: Opened Chinese office
• 2005: Extends dual licensing to Qt for Windows
• 2005: Secures $6.7 Million Investment
• 2005: Qt 4 released
• 2005: Oslo office move to larger premises to support its growth
• 2006: Launch of Qtopia 4 Series: Qtopia Core, Qtopia Platform and Qtopia Phone Edition
• 2006: (July 5) Completed an IPO on the Oslo Stock Exchange
• 2006: Launched Qtopia Greenphone
• 2007: Launched Qt Jambi, a version of Qt for Java developers
• 2008: Nokia makes public offer to purchase Trolltech
  
• 2008: Qt 4.4 launched, with support for WinCE and WebKit integration
• 2008: Nokia acquisition complete. Trolltech is now a Nokia company