Press Releases
08.06.2007
Aplix Joins LiMo Foundation as Core Member
Tokyo, Japan - August 06, 2007-
Aplix Corporation (TSE: 3727) announced today that it has joined the LiMo Foundation as a Core Member to contribute its middleware and platform expertise to the Linux community.
As the supplier of the world’s most deployed Java™ platform powering over 333 million mobile devices as of March 2007, Aplix is bringing to LiMo Foundation its embedded software know-how on Linux and other platforms to create a standardized Linux-based software platform for mobile devices.
In addition to being a leader in Java, Aplix is bringing its expertise with virtualization to Linux with a brand new product, Universal Secure Virtual Machine (USVM). USVM provides an easy-to-deploy and robust mechanism to enable “sandbox” security protection for running pre-integrated and downloadable native applications.
"Aplix is the number one supplier of Java solutions for Linux and many other mobile operating systems. We recently celebrated our 10th anniversary of our highly successful Java product, JBlend™." said Ryu Koriyama, Chairman & CEO of Aplix Corporation, who is also a board member of the LiMo Foundation. "Leveraging our proven expertise with mobile middleware, Aplix is committed to contributing towards LiMo Foundation's goal of creating a global Linux-based open software platform for mobile devices."
- About the LiMo Foundation
The LiMo Foundation is an independent, not-for-profit organization established by Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics, and Vodafone in January, 2007. The LiMo Foundation is aimed at blending the community-based development benefits of transparency, innovation and scalability with the best development practices from the mobile community to create an innovative new business model.
For more information, please visit: http://www.limofoundation.org/
- About Aplix Corporation
Aplix Corporation is the global leader in deploying Java technology in mobile phones. Aplix was first established in 1986 and has been a Sun JavaTM licensee since 1996. Aplix was publicly listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (Mothers) in 2003. On August 24, 2004 Aplix and the Taiwan based company iaSolution finalized the integration of the corporations.
Headquarters: Tokyo
Other offices: San Francisco, Munich, Taipei, Shanghai, Beijing, Seoul, Yokosuka, and OkinawaFor more information, please visit: www.aplixcorp.com/and www.iasolution.net
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