SCO to launch Me Inc. in 2006

NEW DELHI: The SCO Group today announced that its Me Inc., an advanced networking platform, will be launched worldwide next year.

Me Inc. provides feature rich consumer and business digital services for smart phones and other intelligent mobile devices. The company had earlier unveiled the platform in September.

SCO is a provider of UNIX software technology for distributed, embedded and network-based systems, offering SCO open server for small to medium business and UnixWare for enterprise applications.

Addressing a press conference here, Tim Negris, senior vice-president (Marketing), SCO, said that the new Me Inc. digital services and Edge Processor platform would overcome the technological problems in a highly secure and reliable way.

“It would enable organisations of all kinds to improve communications and collaboration while they reduce cost and latency at the same time. We hope this would prove beneficial for our valued customers,” Negris said.

“Me Inc. is just the first step in the execution of SCO's digital services strategy, which builds on our years of software experience in distributed servers and network-based systems. Just like SCO's UNIX technology, our digital services are robust, reliable, secure and exceptionally fast,” said Sanjay Gupta, country manager-India and South East Asia.

He said that the new technology allows any group of people to interact far more productively through services for group communication, group action planning and coordination, opinion polling, multi-media capture and sharing.

Gupta added that Me Inc. has caught the attention of variety of business, educational institutions and government organisations as well as smart phone providers, mobile service carriers and IT infrastructure providers.

The company plans to begin beta testing of its digital services this month-end with Pal Treo devices and would later roll out the product out for other smart handheld devices such as BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Symbian OS devices.

Terming India as one of the important market for SCO Negris said that there has been an increase of 40 percent revenue between 2004 and 2005. Research indicates India is poised to have some of the largest IT industry growth of any market around the world in terms of IT spending.

According to industry research firm Gartner, India's IT spending would surpass $ 54.8 billion by 2008 compared to $ 29.5 billion in 2004.