Ontario Compaq Canada Corp. announced today that, to accelerate the adoption of unified messaging, its American parent, Compaq Computer Corporation, and Lucent Technologies have entered into a business and technical alliance that will make it easy for users to take advantage of unified messaging capabilities. Enterprise and service provider customers will benefit from more efficient integration of voice and data messaging solutions and faster deployments using an open, industry-standard solution. Additionally, Lucent will license technology from Compaq to provide future enhancements to Octel Unified Messenger, and Compaq will provide engineering support to assist in the development of new functionality. MAIL using their mobile phone, making their time away from the office more productive. IT managers have one point of administration and a single message storage platform, thereby lowering costs.
Unified messaging is a rapidly growing market.
Combining Compaq s world-class servers, communications solutions and global services with Lucent s leadership in unified messaging will help make it easier and faster for customers to take advantage of this exciting, new messaging convergence. Compaq is the number one systems integrator of Microsoft Exchange, and 60 percent of Microsoft Exchange solutions run on Compaq servers. In support of this alliance, Compaq Services will create a portfolio of support services for Unified Messenger-based solutions. The companies also will engage in joint sales and marketing activities that are geared towards enabling customers and channels to take the complexity out of planning, deployment, and operation of Unified Messenger on Compaq platforms. Pricing and Availability Octel Unified Messenger solutions based on Compaq servers can be ordered immediately through Lucent, with shipment within 90 days.