Last year, RIM bought the developer of a powerful operating system called QNX and has long planned to migrate its next-generation phones off of its current BlackBerry OS to QNX.

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If you look at BlackBerry right now, its relevance is not the Z10 but its astute purchase of the QNX embeddable OS a couple of years back.

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The Android Linux is magnitudes more open and powerful than the BB OS and the QNX microkernel which is not acceptable for corporate apps.

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QNX, the OS behind the Blackberry re-launch has interesting projects in cars and healthcare but cars are a small market and healthcare is a difficult one to crack.

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IBM, for example, will offer solutions running on any real-time OS, such as QNX from QSSL, that requires as little as 8MB to 16MB in the car.

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The operating system will not use the new Blackberry OS 6 but has instead opted for QNX software, which was recently acquired by RIM and has extensive expertise in embedded systems for the car.

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Cross Platform Integration : Perhaps more for the future, but QNX, the foundation of BB10 is still a leading OS for the automotive market.

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