Trolltech Wins 'Best Embedded Solution' For Second Straight Year

Trolltech Wins 'Best Embedded Solution' For Second Straight Year

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TROLLTECH WINS "BEST EMBEDDED SOLUTION" FOR SECOND STRAIGHT YEAR

Trolltech's Qt/Embedded recognized as leader by IDG and the UniForum
Association

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - August 21, 2002 - Trolltech, the leader in
single-source, multiplatform software development, today announced that
Qt/Embedded won the "Best Embedded Linux Solution" at last week's LinuxWorld
Conference & Expo. This is the second straight year Trolltech's Qt/Embedded
has won this award.

"Winning this award for two years in a row is a clear indication that
Qt/Embedded is the product of choice when developing for embedded computing
systems," said Haavard Nord, chief executive office for Trolltech. "This
award further validates the power, ease of use, and sophistication of our
Qt/Embedded and Qtopia products."
 
IDG World Expo presented the Open Source Product Excellence Awards in
conjunction with the UniForum Association. The awards recognize Open Source
product and service innovations offered by LinuxWorld exhibitors, which
include some of the world?s leading ISVs, OEMs, service providers, and
developers.

"We're pleased to see the innovation that Trolltech's Qt/Embedded is
delivering in the 'Embedded Linux Solution' category," said Rob Scheschareg,
vice president of sales, marketing and product development at IDG World Expo.
"We're encouraged to watch the progress of companies like Trolltech, who are
clearly anticipating and meeting the demands of the Linux market." 

About Qt/Embedded

Qt/Embedded is the embedded Linux port of Qt, a multiplatform,
object-oriented, easily extensible C++ application framework. Qt/Embedded and
Qtopia have been chosen by some of the world's leading consumer
manufacturers, including Sharp Electronics, to power today's popular mobile
devices. 

About Trolltech

Trolltech is a software company with two flagship products: Qt and Qtopia. Qt
is a multiplatform C++ application framework developers can use to write
single-source applications that run - natively - on Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac
OS X and embedded Linux. Qt has been used to build thousands of successful
commercial applications worldwide, and is the basis of the open source KDE
desktop environment. Qtopia is the first comprehensive application
environment built for embedded Linux, and is used in Sharp's new Zaurus
SL5500 and Zaurus A300 PDAs. Trolltech is headquartered in Oslo, Norway, with
offices in Brisbane, Australia, and Santa Clara, California. More about
Trolltech can be found at www.trolltech.com.  For information outside of
North America, please contact Tonje Sund at +47 21 60 48 78, +47 934 02 344
or tonje@trolltech.com.

About LinuxWorld Conference & Expo

LinuxWorld Conference & Expo is the premier event exclusively focused on
Linux and Open Source solutions. As the world's most comprehensive
marketplace for open source products and services, LinuxWorld provides
business decision-makers with information and resources to implement Linux
and open source solutions into business infrastructure and enterprise
networks. 

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