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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