21 May 2009

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At this year’s Interop business technology event, held in Las Vegas, HP and Microsoft announced a four-year global initiative to cooperatively deliver an end-to-end unified communications and collaboration solution.

The agreement forms part of their Frontline Partnership, with the two companies planning to invest an additional US$180 million in product development, professional services, as well as joint sales and marketing campaigns.

The planned solution will span software, hardware and networking. The focus will be on helping customers to improve business output and reduce travel, telecom and IT operating costs by streamlining communications across messaging, video and voice with connected applications and devices.

“Customers can lower costs and rapidly enhance employee productivity with unified communications and collaboration from HP and Microsoft,” said Ann Livermore, executive vice president, technology solutions group, HP. “We provide customers with solutions that are rich, intuitive and accessible from anywhere on nearly any device.”

“Together, we are offering the extensive breadth of capabilities of our respective technologies to deliver a truly unified communications and collaboration solution to help our customers improve business productivity,” said Stephen Elop, president, Microsoft business division. “This means one click to communicate, one click to conference, one click to collaborate.”

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