HP and Microsoft announced on Tuesday a four-year, $180 million extension of the Frontline Parnership at Interop Las Vegas. The Frontline Partnership, which began 20 years ago as a way to ensure interoperability between the companies' products, will now be used to develop new unified communications and collaboration tools and technology.
The companies will invest in new UC product development, test new services and jointly sell and market any products produced through Frontline. They plan to develop an end-to-end solution with software, hardware, networking and support services that will streamline communications and their delivery across enterprise networks.
"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 of Microsoft's Business Division, in a prepared statement. "This means one click to communicate, one click to conference, one click to collaborate."
Frontline will build out products and services around Microsoft Office SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange Server, and Microsoft Office Communications Server, in addition to HP ProCurve networking gear. The partnership also will develop and offer complete business services to support unified communications installations.
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