This initiative addresses the requirements of customers who need both Windows NT Server and UNIX in their data center and want a very high level of interoperability and investment protection for their systems, storage, software and human resources assets.
Significant interoperability is already part of both companies' products.
Customers have told us they need a programming environment and interoperability services that address a very high level of integration between their UNIX assets and their Windows NT assets, allowing them to commit to Windows NT as their long term strategy. Our customers' capabilities to deploy high-availability, mixed systems environments that integrate with core Windows NT services, such as COM and Windows NT Security, will be dramatically increased. The Compaq Alpha systems, which can run either UNIX or Windows NT, are also an important part of Compaq's investment protection message. Microsoft and Compaq will create a coordinated engineering program and public strategy road map providing more details on these initiatives as these products near market. Company Backgrounds Founded in 1982, Compaq Computer Corporation is a Fortune Global 100 company.