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Microsoft, Nortel Form Telecom Alliance
Microsoft Corp. and Nortel Networks Corp. have formed a four-year alliance to develop and sell products that aim to give people more sophisticated
ways to communicate with each other.
Microsoft Corp. and Nortel Networks Corp. have formed a four-year alliance
to develop and sell products that aim to give people more sophisticated ways
to communicate with each other.
The wide-ranging deal, which could be extended, is focused on selling high-tech
business communications offerings to corporations. It was announced Tuesday,
and no financial details were released.
Redmond-based Microsoft, the world's largest software company, has put enormous
effort behind such technology, which seeks to more closely link communications
ranging from e-mail and instant messaging to video conferencing and even traditional
telephone calls.
The idea is that employees could more easily locate one another and work together,
regardless of whether their colleagues were sitting at a computer in a nearby
cubicle, driving home from work or stuck in an airport.
In a statement, Toronto-based Nortel said it believed it could see more than
$1 billion in revenue from the deal.