January 15, 2009 at 4:46 pm
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Nortel filed for bankruptcy Wednesday. There are various comments about it, some people say it is end of Nortel, others say it is a opportunity for Nortel to take a breath.
Why am I so involved about it. Because I am a Netas employee. Nortel owns %53 share of Netas. Also it is known as Nortel / Netas in Turkey. Situaton still so blurry among Netas employees. Nobody has clear ideas about future. But it will be more clear in a few weeks. According to news, Nortel will give up hardware gradually and will focus on software development. Also Netas mostly works on Nortel’s software products like Adaptive Application Engine (successor of AS5200). For this reason, employees in Netas are not very pessimistic about situation.
According to incoming mails, this is not an end, this is a starting. Nortel plans to go a restructuring. But decrease in Nortel stock prices continues for last ten years, if this decrease is reversible why did they wait until close to end.
May be next week we will be a member of army of the jobless who knows 
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January 14, 2009 at 3:46 pm
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Today, Nokia announced that Qt framework will be available under open source LGPL from release of Qt 4.5, and it is scheduled for March 2009.
This step will change the way of desktop development. Because Qt has everything which are everybody looks for, cross platform, native code, well designed OO API, powerful IDE (Green House) , good documentation, large community (You know Qt is also used in KDE).
Why LGPL ? Because it is more permissive, and it is primarily used for software libraries. If you use code which is under GPL in your software, you have to make open source your software too. But if you are using code under LGPL there is not a requirement like that. You can still keep your source closed.
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January 2, 2009 at 6:09 am
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When I have first downloaded eclipse europe (3.3) , I opened the software updates window to install tools which I have used intensively. Eclipse VE was one of them. But I could not find anything. Then I searched a bit to what happened eclipse VE. According to their web page
Please note: 2007-10-03: Current official builds of the Visual Editor require Eclipse 3.2 (Callisto). The Visual Editor is migrating progressively to Eclipse 3.3 (Europa). Preliminary instructions on testing preview builds are available on theVE wiki. Thank you for your patience and supporting the project!
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