A very good one! QNX is an excellent company with excellent support, listens to developers, and has been very intent on learning about the Amiga and its community ever since they were approached by Gatemiga, before their impressive last-moment demo at Köln (Cologne) in 1998. They enjoy high status in world-wide realtime OS circles, and Canadian and international business communities.
Because QNX is privately owned, what you hear is what you get - no stock politics to get in the way here. The company is run by people who like to code and are world-class OS architecture specialists. They are easy to like because they value the same traits that made the Amiga great. And the people are real nice, and are real straight-shooters.
On the practical side, most of QNX's Neutrino team has been working with a subset of Phoenix developers on the early beta program since last November, finalizing changes and seeking bugs before it goes out to the entire Phoenix membership in the next few weeks. I have been nothing but impressed with their responsiveness and their desire to let Amigans define what is to be included or changed, and what is to be added at a later date.
What can I say. I like them, and I like their vision.
(AB) Does Phoenix or QSSL have a vision of the future? Your competitor, Amiga Incorporated, seems to be building upon the plans and visions of KOSH which were contributed also by Dave Haynie, at present Phoenix protagonist and signatory.
I'm not always certain the Phoenix body as a whole has some earth- shaking vision. The developers just want to eat while programming for an exciting OS with tons of potential. But we core people have plans, and the meme is infecting developers who wish to see computing that is enjoyable and creative and productive. Thus they recognize a need for an enlightened developer consortium to ensure that this can continue.
Hopefully, Laurie Anderson's "Language Is A Virus" is playing in pointed little heads somewhere as we acknowledge guys like Dave and Carl and RJ and Gio, who have been down this road before, understanding that the developers - and the user community - need to have more than just a development program supplied by an overlord tech company.
I also wish to note here that Phoenix and the new Amiga Inc are not competitors. One is a gathering of developers of all shapes and sizes,
