Research in Motion is trying to generate a positive spin on things following a truly horrible week for the company last week. Today at RIM's DevCon event, company executives have officially announced its new operating system, which it is calling BBX. According to RIM's co-CEO Mike Lazaridis, the new BBX platform will combine the best features of its long running Blackberry mobile operating system with QNX, which RIM used as the basis for its recent Playbook tablet device.
BBX has also been certified as POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface for Unix) which should open up BBX to be used by more developers. It will give app creators over 100 open source libraries to use with the operating system. During the company's keynote address RIM also announced its full support behind HTML5 which it says is the "obvious choice for modern application development."
Additional announcements and highlights from BlackBerry DevCon Americas 2011 include:
- BlackBerry WebWorks and HTML5 apps compatible with current BlackBerry smartphones and tablets will run on future BBX-based devices
- Native SDK for BlackBerry PlayBook goes gold; released for general
availability
- SDK for Adobe AIR Now Supports Adobe AIR 3.0
- BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 Developer Beta now available, includes BlackBerry Runtime for Android Apps
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