January 14, 2010
By Brandon Bailey, San Jose Mercury News
Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft said Wednesday they will jointly spend $250 million to develop hardware and software products that are designed to work together smoothly in their customers’ data centers and in cloud computing facilities.
“This is all about integrating technology and making things as close to ’plug and play’ as we can,” HP CEO Mark Hurd said during a telephone conference call with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and other executives, in which they announced a partnership that appears to represent another move toward consolidation in the commercial tech industry. Read the article