News release

HP Announces Comprehensive Line of Services, Products for Microsoft Exchange 2000

Mission-critical Infrastructure to Provide Always-on Messaging and Collaboration Solutions

DALLAS, MEC 2000, Oct. 10, 2000

Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HWP) today announced a comprehensive offering of services, training and products to help customers design and deploy Microsoft Exchange 2000 messaging and collaboration solutions. Through HP's best-in-class services, training, products and software, enterprise customers can now create a mission-critical messaging and collaboration infrastructure based on Exchange 2000 to increase the reliability and availability of their business communications and information.

As a Microsoft Windows 2000 Global Launch Partner, HP has worked closely with Microsoft to ensure that Exchange 2000 provides customers with a fully tested, optimized, secure and reliable messaging and collaboration system that allows maximum uptime. In addition, HP and Microsoft are collaborating on numerous Exchange-based application service provider solutions, including HP's Messaging on Tap.

"HP's services, training and products make it easy for customers to migrate their messaging systems to Exchange 2000," said Russ Stockdale, vice president, Knowledge Worker Solutions Group at Microsoft Corp. "HP's expertise in designing, deploying and maintaining high-availability environments, and Microsoft's rock-solid messaging technology, will allow customers to create a communication system that will be highly reliable and very easy to manage."

"Anytime, anywhere access to information -- through remote accessing, data conferencing, real-time collaboration and instant messaging -- is a fact of life in the new economy," said Nic Di Iorio, executive vice-president and chief technology officer of McCann Erickson WorldGroup. "HP has been a key resource in helping us design and deploy the Windows 2000 and Exchange 2000 environment that our business requires."

HP's comprehensive array of services, products and software for Exchange 2000 include:

Services: HP's Exchange 2000 services include consulting services; global installation and integration; and mission critical support to increase system and application availability. HP's consultants provide migration planning and implementation; server and storage consolidation; and planning and design for unified messaging, Internet service provider and content management solutions based on Exchange 2000. In addition, HP provides IT professionals with classroom training on Exchange 2000 through HP's global network of Microsoft Certified Technical Education Centers, tailored on-site classes and through on line training.

Products: The HP NetServer systems product line includes high-end systems optimized for large, centralized deployments and departmental and small-business systems optimized for local and distributed environments. HP provides scalable, networked storage solutions featuring the HP SureStore Disk Array FC60 and XP512, which extend control and consolidation of Exchange 2000 data across server platforms.

Software: HP OpenView offers proactive, end-to-end Microsoft Exchange 2000 management capabilities, including auto-discovery of the entire Exchange environment to provide instant visibility into the health and status of group message flows. OpenView's Exchange management solution can be up and running in days, giving customers the confidence that availability and performance expectations will be met with ease. HP OpenView OmniBack II, HP's storage management software, provides zero-downtime backup for MS Exchange Server 2000 with HP's industry-leading HP SureStore tape libraries.

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