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Cross-platform futures in a mobile world  Summary: Benoit
Schillings, head of tech for Qt Software, talks about Nokia,
Mozilla and going deeper than Java  Benoit Schillings is chief
technologist for Qt Software (originally Trolltech). Based in
the Bay Area around San Francisco, he sets the direction of the
company's cross-platform application deployment product.  Newly
renamed after its recent acquisition by Nokia, Qt Software held
its fifth annual Developer Days conference in Munich this week.
To push its 'write once, deploy everywhere' message, this year's
event had its first tracks for business managers, alongside the
more normal developers' briefings.  Belgian-born Schillings is
bullish about the prospects for his company's technology as the
web, desktop and mobile domains continue to align and customers
want the same experiences on all. ZDNet.co.uk caught up with him
to find out why software engineers should invest their time in
developing the s