No, QNX and RIM actually came from the same birthplace - the University of Waterloo. I bet you the principles of each company even had beers with each other when they were in their salad days, debating technical decisions, or hashing over names for their respective products - So for RIM engineers, buying QNX is pretty much the equivalent of reuniting with your long lost twin brother. While they are in radically different industries, and have radically different products, the laser sharp focus on engineering is the same.
And I bet you any RIM engineer you ask will definitively state that QNX is a much better real time OS [focus being on real time] than anything RIM has ever put out - it's akin to asking whether your kid brother who competes in the Olympics is good at their sport or not.
I think the vital quote from Frank's notice is "I fully expect that this new job will deepen my understanding of real world Python coding and make my Jython work more productive."
With this in mind, wouldn't his move away from Jython full time actually make it better (ie infuse new ideas) so we might get 2.6 comparability sometime down the line?
Well, now that google owns DocVerse, they can steer the development efforts toward that direction - with a team that is presumably very well versed in building MS word plugins, it would be fairly easy to commit the team to building a conversion bridge that makes DocVerse-hosted offices docs available through google docs.
And I bet you any RIM engineer you ask will definitively state that QNX is a much better real time OS [focus being on real time] than anything RIM has ever put out - it's akin to asking whether your kid brother who competes in the Olympics is good at their sport or not.