QNX and the next blackberry OS

I'm surprised that there hasn't been more discussion on this, but since the news that the rumoured blackpad is rumoured to drop very soon, then maybe the coming OS will be the precursor to the successor of OS7?

It does make me wonder what QNX has been doing over the last couple of years which made it so attractive to RIM.
The idea of developers being able to use Eclipse as an IDE to develop apps should hopefully really open up the blackberry appworld, and it seems to run along the lines of how apple sandboxes its apps.

Hopefully that should keep RIM on the top of the security that made it so popular in the first place.

Does anyone know more about QNX? Any guesses on how long bOS 7 it will take to come out, or anything to add to the wishlist? Not just about what's out there already, but how to make it an innovative and fresh experience.