How much did rim buy qnx for

Stability control systems will be mandatory in the US for This makes absolutely no sense. It's almost like they saw Apple buy some companies that deal with embedded processors and they felt they needed to do something similar.

RIM is going to have no idea what to do with QNX on a phone, the other portion of QNX's business will start failing, a couple engineers and upper-mgmt, will form a new company doing similar work as QNX's old business and will do much better. RIM will be bought up by nokia.

This is seriously interesting news. QNX is used in some pretty important things, cars are only a lucrative side project for them, but even NASA uses it to dock with the ISS I still remember how hard it was to dock in Elite without the docking computer, so doing it IRL is pretty hardcore stuff imo.

I think RIM have a long term view here. Both are monolithic kernels, and QNX maintains an equal portability of software with a realtime microkernel underpinning it, making it naturally more at home in the mobile space. A mobile needs to be efficient in just about every way, and QNX is significantly more efficient by it's simpler design which has oh so many knock on effects on power consumption, responsiveness, lower BoM's QNX is so tiny it'd only need a fraction of the ROM sizes required in a typical mobile and stuff like that.

I remember a marketing trick QNX did a while ago creating a 1. Name any other OS that can combine all of that to run off a single floppy disk? But with QNX they've chosen a somewhat harder, but more long term view to secure success, especially since the smartphone space is entirely dominated by the quality of the OS. Nevertheless QNX offers so much potential for them, that if they don't make the right decisions and are too awe-inspired by the possibilities QNX can offer, then they might have the problem BMW did with their iDrive system - by making overcomplicated and while powerful, due it to it being unusable by the Paris Hiltons of this world, useless.

I for one will be keenly watching this space. Some acquisitions work better than others. As the processors powering mobile devices get more powerful real multitasking will become more prevalent and QNX knows a lot about these in the embedded arena.

Back in the mid 90's I tried to get my employer to switch over to QNX for the embedded control I used to work on. They didn't want to spend the money to do the port at the time. QNX was way cool back then and has only gotten better since.

The free non-commercial license for the whole development system is invaluable for hobbyists and students developing real-time systems. We believe our leading customers will fully endorse this move and see it as a major step in advancing seamless connectivity and integration among intelligent devices. This is a great time to be a QNX customer, as we focus on collaborating with RIM to create an even more exciting platform for the next generation of connected and embedded devices.

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