IBM and HP announce software co-marketing agreement.SOMERS, N.Y. and PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- March 26, 1997--IBM and Hewlett-Packard Company today announced a cooperative alliance to develop and market a wide range of IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) software products on current and future HP platforms. The integration of IBM's advanced software solutions and HP's award- winning HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. (1) operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. , would allow users throughout an enterprise to benefit from the high performance and reliability of this dynamic combination. "The combination of IBM's Web-enabled software and HP's next-generation computing architecture based on the Merced microprocessor will help customers succeed in an era when the Internet enables customers to make partners, suppliers and multiple locations within the enterprise work as a seamless, integrated organization," said Richard W. Sevcik, HP vice president and general manager of the Systems Technology Group. "This lets our customers better utilize investments in corporate applications, enterprise servers and databases." This agreement provides customers with a wide range of reliable and advanced software to help extend current solutions to the Internet. IBM and HP are also testing HP MC/ServiceGuard with MQSeries messaging software on HP 9000 systems to provide customers with further-enhanced performance. In addition, IBM will offer Version 2 of CICS (Customer Information Control System) A TP monitor from IBM that was originally developed to provide transaction processing for IBM mainframes. It controls the interaction between applications and users and lets programmers develop screen displays without for HP as a key part of a portfolio of IBM software products available on the HP platform. "Customers need help to exploit the benefits of electronic business," said Mark Elliott
Mark Elliott is an English travel writer best known for books on Azerbaijan[1], [2], [3] , general manager, worldwide sales and marketing, IBM. "This partnership provides our customers with network solutions that will allow them to meet the demands for globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation , increased responsiveness and lowered cost." The companies are working together to make sure that users of HP-UX continue to get the broadest-possible choice of high-performance IBM software as HP moves to the new 64-bit processor architecture developed by HP and Intel. HP expects that this architecture will make its future 64-bit computers significantly faster and more powerful, while keeping them compatible with today's PA-RISC (Precision Architecture-RISC) A proprietary RISC-based CPU architecture from HP that was introduced in 1986. It is the foundation of HP's 3000 and 9000 computer families. See IA-64. and Intel-based systems. "We feel that this partnership between IBM and HP will make notable changes in the industry," said George Brookler, vice president, software sales Hall-Mark, and a member of IBM's award-winning BESTeam. "At Hall-Mark Computer Products, our focus is on assisting resellers in utilizing the full benefits of available technology. As a technical distributor, our involvement signifies that we are on the power curve of current market trends. This new relationship will allow us to sell more of this dynamic combination." IBM and HP intend to launch a marketing campaign that will include a combination of products, reseller-education sessions and business-partner programs. The goal is to help customers make the most of their investment in network computing Storing and/or running applications in servers in a network. See cloud computing and network computer. by adapting the best technology from a variety of leading platforms. This campaign will include channel-specific marketing support and a closed-loop lead-management system to drive leads directly to business partners. "This relationship between IBM and HP allows Gates/Arrow Distributing to provide complete solutions to our VAR customer base," said Gary Gammon, vice president, enterprise computing Refers to information technology in the larger company. See enterprise data and enterprise networking. , Gates/Arrow Distributing. "The power of HP servers, combined with the functionality of IBM and Lotus(R) software solutions, makes it easy for our resellers to integrate new solutions with existing technology. Gates/Arrow's expertise in UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (R) systems, networking and software will assist the VAR in fully utilizing this type of HP and IBM solution." In addition, HP's and IBM's direct sales forces, as well as IBM's BESTeam, will be mobilized to recruit and enable resellers to sell and support IBM software on HP systems. IBM's BESTeam is a comprehensive software channel program that provides the necessary tools and services for its members to develop, install and support innovative network-computing solutions for their customers. Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global manufacturer of computing, communications and measurement products and services recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 112,800 employees and had revenue of $38.4 billion in its 1996 fiscal year. IBM creates, develops and manufactures the industry's most advanced information technologies, including computer systems, software, networking systems, storage devices, and microelectronics. The world's largest software provider, IBM is open and adheres to industry standards. Its middleware runs on leading industry platforms including AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , OS/2, HP-UX, Solaris, Microsoft(R) Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. (R), Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. (R) 95, UNIX, and DOS. Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com . The fastest, easiest way to find information about IBM's software for HP is to go to the IBM Software for HP-UX homepage at http://www.software.ibm.com/hp . For resellers interested in learning more about joining IBM's Business Partner Program, visit http://www.software.ibm.com/sw-sell/besteam/ or call 1-800/426-1822 in the US. (1) HP-UX 9.X and 10.0 for HP 9000 Series 700 and 800 computers are X/Open(R) Company UNIX(R) 95 branded products. HP-UX 10.20 is an X/Open UNIX 95 branded product. (2) PA-RISC stands for Precision Architecture-reduced- instruction-set computing. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: BESTeam, OS/2, DOS and AIX are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. X/Open is a registered trademark, and the X device is a trademark of X/Open Company Ltd. in the UK and other countries. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and other countries, licensed exclusively through X/Open Company Limited. Lotus is a U.S. registered trademark of Lotus Development Corp. Microsoft is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. Windows NT is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. Windows is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. CONTACT: IBM Keith Mary Drew, 914/766-1211 keithmaryr@vnet.ibm.com or The Hoffman Agency for HP Rachel Imison, 408/447-5456 rimison@hoffman.com |
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