HP and Microsoft Achieve Milestone for .NET Initiative

HP (www.hp.com) and Microsoft Corp. (www.microsoft.com) announced significant growth in their .NET initiative with more than 1,000 projects engaged with nearly 700 customers in 39 countries, driving more than $600 million in incremental revenue.

"HP and Microsoft have enabled us to integrate information that resided in separate legacy systems so that we can more effectively manage taxpayer compliance and enforcement," said Tremaine Smith, Audit Division assistant director, State of Washington Department of Revenue.

"With HP's .NET-based solution, delivered ahead of schedule and within a limited budget, we now have the tools to manage revenue collection accurately, administer programs to fund services and promote sound tax policy."

"The bottom line is that the HP and Microsoft .NET initiative is delivering real value to enterprise customers with key benefits, including increased agility, improved productivity and reduced costs," said Nora Denzel, senior vice president and general manager, Adaptive Enterprise, HP.

HP's .NET-based solution portfolio includes cross-industry and industry-specific offerings that address a variety of customers' critical business challenges opportunities.

"The success of our joint investment in .NET solutions demonstrates the strength of our alliance in helping enterprises take advantage of Web services to capitalize on their existing technology investments and meet pressing business objectives," said Simon Witts, corporate vice president, Enterprise and Partner Group, Microsoft.

HP's .NET-based solutions portfolio includes cross-industry solutions such as enterprise portals, eLearning portals, enterprise application integration (EAI), document management, enterprise collaboration, and business intelligence.