BARCELONA—At the Mobile World Congress on Monday, Intel and Nokia on Monday announced that they will merge their Moblin and Maemo platforms into one software platform, dubbed MeeGo.

Oistano pointed to Nokia's N900, a Linux-based smartphone introduced last year, as an example of devices that would benefit from MeeGo. The N9000 features a 3.5-inch touch screen, a full QWERTY keyboard, four customizable home screens, and Adobe Flash 9.4 support within the N900 Web browser.

MeeGo will focus on Qt because it "enables app developers to write apps once and then run it in multiple hardware architectures," Oistano said. "It's good to remember that there are already 5,000 companies around the world that have adopted Qt. It's not like it's just starting."