Visix Software Inc has begun trying to penetrate the European market, and expects to generate up to 35% of its total turnover here within the next 18 months. The company set up a sales and support office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in August, followed by a UK operation in September, and has appointed Jon Forrest as UK country manager. Forrest was formerly sales and marketing director of the UK arm of Easel Corp. UK customers include British Telecommunications Plc, Philips Research, Rank Xerox Corp and J P Morgan, and the Reston, Virginia-based company reckons the UK should contribute between 10% and 15% of its total revenues by the end of the next financial year, which ends in June. Visix also says that it plans to open new offices in France and Germany very soon, to be followed by another in Japan by the end of this quarter – it already has a Kanji version of its Galaxy cross-system application development environment for that market.
