Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you. (Operator Instructions)
And our first question comes from the line of Colin Gillis with Canaccord Adams. Please go ahead.
Colin Gillis - Canaccord Adams
Hey, good afternoon. Thanks for taking my question. Can you hear me?
Kevin Donovan
Yes.
Rob Eberle
Yes. Yes, keep going. How are you?
Colin Gillis - Canaccord Adams
Good. I was just wondering, can you walk me through the adoption time line for Business eXchange?
Rob Eberle
Sure. We today have a customer live. That customer's brought on a number of suppliers. We're now ramping the level of suppliers. We have a couple of other customers lined up to begin implementations in later -- probably towards the end of Q4, beginning of Q1.
And then, at this point we're now broadening out the sales and marketing efforts around it, around the Business eXchange, including possible channel partners, exploring possible channel partners. Because last we built out this offering there's been a fair level of interest from that perspective.
From a revenue standpoint, you won't see meaningful revenues and you'll continue to see meaningful costs through certainly calendar '08 and well into FY '09. But what we're doing today is building out the functionality, the network, and the reference customer base.
Colin Gillis - Canaccord Adams
I mean, should we be thinking of it in similar terms of Legal eXchange where it took a few years to get that critical base...
Rob Eberle
I think?
Colin Gillis - Canaccord Adams
?revenue?
Rob Eberle
I think that's right. And then -- but the power -- you crossed two lines. I think that's a very good observation, Colin. The power of the model is that once you've got this fixed cost base and you're then cross on a recurring revenues -- you cross the recurring revenue crosses the cost level, you're producing a highly predictable and profitable business model.
You look at the Legal eXchange today, and we've got very attractive margins. When we add four new customers, as we did this quarter, the vast majority of those revenues will go to -- will make their way to the bottomline.
Colin Gillis - Canaccord Adams
On that cost side, I was expecting that some of the ramp costs for Business eXchange would start to tap down in the back half of this year and into 2009. We might lose track of that now just with the Optio integration. I mean, could you just give us some color? Is that still--
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