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Hopkinton, Mass.-Based Data Storage Giant Faces Challenge from Alliance.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, July, 2000 by Bray, Hiawatha
Jul. 7--In a new challenge to Hopkinton-based data storage titan EMC Corp., IBM Corp., and Compaq Computer Corp. are teaming up to win a bigger share of EMC's core market.
IBM and Compaq yesterday announced a strategic agreement to sell each other's storage hardware and software products, and to make them interoperable. That would mean that a corporate user of heavy-duty IBM hard drives would be able to add Compaq drives to his system by simply plugging them in. Much of the interoperability testing will be carried out at Compaq's plant in Shrewsbury.
"Both sets of products from both companies [will have] the ability to interoperate, and this is a tremendous, tremendous advantage to our customers," said Compaq chief executive Michael Capellas.
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