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NEC, Microsoft Expand Strategic Alliance

Japanese electronic company NEC Corp. and Microsoft Corp. have agreed to expand their strategic partnership in IT/network convergence, including new projects in the enterprise networking area and existing collaborative efforts for server business into next-generation high reliability servers and HPC (High Performance Computing) servers. In addition, the two companies announced the conclusion of a patent cross-licensing agreement.

Under the terms of the partnership, the two companies will focus on enterprise networking and next-generation servers with high reliability and performance among other areas.

To improve enterprise networking NEC's UNIVERGE SV7000 IP telephony servers will be integrated with Microsoft's real-time communications platform, Microsoft(R) Office Live Communications Server 2005.

Microsoft cooperation will include functional aspects of its Windows Server(TM) OS in order to realize high reliability and high performance in joint development of NEC's and Unisys's high-end servers as well as NEC's and Stratus' next-generation ft (fault tolerant) servers.
NEC and Microsoft will collaborate to integrate Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, Microsoft's HPC operating system under development, and the Global File System (GFS), NEC's file system that enables high-speed transfer of large volumes of data.

NEC will expand utilisation of Microsoft's .NET system infrastructure in its business packages. The first outcome of this collaboration will be the development and delivery of .NET-supported package software for local governments.


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