More evidence of Symbian's eclipse.
Nokia has not sold the software itself but the licensing and professional service business.
This has gone to Digia, a Finnish software company, for an undisclosed sum. With this acquisition, Digia will pick up around 3,500 developer licences.
Qt is a cross-platform framework that lets developers write and deploy apps across desktop, mobile and embedded OSes without rewriting source code.
Until a few weeks ago, it was considered a crucial part of software development for Nokia phones – and was considered a vast improvement on previous development tools for Symbian.
Nokia insists will will continue to invest in future development of Qt, but with the move to Win Pho 7 it appears to have been sidelined.
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Nokia bought Qt from Trolltech in 2008 for $153 million.
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