Commercial rollout is expected in the second quarter, beginning in Singapore and Australia. The company is in discussions with two major U.S. cellular operators and expects a rollout of services by June. In addition, Radixs is in talks with manufacturers of cellular-phone chipsets and expects to disclose some deals in the next month.
The company is looking at the OMAP platform by Texas Instruments Inc. and the XScale platform from Intel, which are the leading processors used in cellular phones and PDAs. Both OMAP and XScale have application processors based on an ARM processor architecture, making it relatively easy to port the Radixs operating system to both platforms.
Radixs also says it has teamed with Sun Microsystems to develop a mobile version of its StarOffice 7 Office Suite, making it the first desktop application suite to be run in its entirety on a mobile device, Rathakrishnan says. StarOffice 7 is a leading office-productivity suite for Linux and the Solaris operating system and an alternative to Microsoft Office.
MXI is compatible with Java and capable of running apps built with Java 2 Enterprise Edition and Java 2 Standard Edition. Radixs also will support Sun's Solaris x86 and will integrate the MXI server platform with the Sun Java System Messaging Server, Web Server, and Application Server.
Radixs plans to charge a per-user fixed subscription fee, an integration charge per operator for implementation of the MXI platform, and a per-device royalty to handset manufacturers.
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