Compaq Announces New Offerings for Microsoft Exchange 2000

Compaq, the Worldwide Prime Integrator for Microsoft Exchange 2000, has further solidified its leadership in the Exchange market by introducing a range of new solutions, services, and partnerships. These offerings aim to simplify the migration process and enhance the deployment of Microsoft's Exchange 2000 platform in enterprises. Compaq's new solutions and services include pre-configured and tested Exchange 2000 solutions, new Exchange 2000 Migration and Integration Services, new MMB2 ProLiant benchmarks, and two new business partnerships with Dialogic Corporation and Ecora.

Key Takeaways:

• Compaq has introduced pre-configured and tested Exchange 2000 solutions, which can be found in the company's ActiveAnswers Catalog at http://www.compaq.com/activeanswers.
• The new Exchange 2000 Migration and Integration Services, part of Compaq's Next Generation Services for Exchange 2000 Solution set, deploy Exchange 2000 Server rapidly in the customer environment and integrate with their existing environment to allow smooth migration.
• Compaq has announced three new MAPI Messaging Benchmark 2 (MMB2) ProLiant numbers, with the highest performance on the 1 GHz 2P ProLiant DL380 at 3,800 MMB2.
• Compaq has added Dialogic Communications Corporation and Ecora Corporation to its Business Solutions for Exchange (BSE) Program, which offers tested, complete solutions on the Compaq and Microsoft Exchange messaging platform.
• Compaq is the only vendor capable of delivering true end-to-end wireless Microsoft Exchange 2000 solutions, including the highest performing industry-standard server platforms, installation and support services, and pocket-sized PCs.
• Compaq has under agreement more than 300,000 Exchange 2000 customer seats as part of early deployment initiatives and offers proven methodologies to assist customers with planning, implementation, and management of their Exchange 2000 environment.
• Compaq's Microsoft Exchange Backup/Restore Solutions deliver the highest levels of availability of data for the Exchange 2000 environment, and its Private Storage Utility frees enterprises to focus on core business opportunities.

Statistics:

• Compaq has more than six million Microsoft Exchange seats deployed and over 550 Global Enterprise customers.
• Compaq has trained and certified more than 3,400 Microsoft Certified Systems Engineers (MCSE), including 850 dedicated Exchange Solution Integration experts worldwide.
• The MMB2 benchmark sets a high standard for comparing server platform performance for Microsoft Exchange 2000.
• Compaq's Business Solutions for Exchange (BSE) Program has more than 20 best-of-breed partners.

Sources:

• Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE: CPQ)
• Microsoft Corporation
• Dialogic Communications Corporation (DCC)
• Ecora Corporation
• Infowave
• ActiveAnswers Catalog (http://www.compaq.com/activeanswers)
• Microsoft Exchange Conference (October 9-13, 2000, Dallas)