I agree completely. QNX is a great OS. I first worked with it in the late 1980s and it was far and away the best option for a real multitasking OS that ran on PC-level hardware back then.

Me and a cohort liked its design so much that we implemented a high speed distributable message passing API for Win32 operating systems and it works really well for our applications.

Such a pity that QNX doesn't do more to capture market share, it is pretty clearly a better design (microkernel) than Linux. Too many Linux drivers+apps out there and not enough or the QNX flavor available, unfortunately.

Maybe RIM will surprise everyone and get QNX out there to the masses. I just hope if QNX doesn't make it in the commercial market that RIM (or whoever happens to own them at the time) open-sources it so that it doesn't completely die, that would be a shame indeed.