Meanwhile UK desktop manager developer IXI Ltd, Cambridge, says it did the equivalent of $3m its last fiscal year ending in August and will have pre-tax profits at the 5% level: its spanking new American operation, IXI Corp, with offices in San Ramon, California and in Minnesota, has reportedly done $1m worth of direct business since June, focusing on large end users where it’s pushing the versions of X.desktop for Sun Microsystems Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co Unix machines on the theory that the Fortune 500s don’t want to be tied to hardware merchants for their graphical user interfaces. The US numbers did not negatively impact UK turnover.
