Qt vs Flash

[Scorp1us]

Well here is the issue Upper Mgt wants to make visually compelling applications. They see our flash guys churn out cool stuff quickly, so why keep using Qt? It seems with the flash projector you can almost do anything anyway.

[jacek]

Well here is the issue Upper Mgt wants to make visually compelling applications.

What kind of applications? Every tool is good for certain tasks, if your management wants only small flashy animations that simply present some data, there is no point in using Qt, but I doubt that flash is a good choice for complex applications.

[high_flyer]

but I doubt that flash is a good choice for complex applications.

Where the emphasis is on applications.
Maybe you can call a flash script an "application" but that will be only academical.
Qt is designed as GUI tool kit for C++ applications.
But it has far larger usability scope then that.
Besides, can you run flash scripts with out a browser?
If not, why use flash?
You can do nifty things with power point or OO-Impress as well.
Ask your upper management to draw a requirement document to the software they want (which might take them some time, since they will find out, once they start dealing with the specifics, they don't really know what they want) - and then see which tools are best fit to answer those requirements.
And from experience, the requirements will exceed flash's ability for sure.