Hewlett-Packard Company and Trend Micro, Inc. to Collaborate on Virus Protection

Business Wire, Jan 14, 1998

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 14, 1998--

Strategic Alliance Between Enterprise Anti-virus Provider

Trend Micro and Hewlett-Packard Will Provide Integrated Virus

Protection for HP OpenMail Users

Trend Micro Incorporated, the leader in server-based virus protection, today announced a strategic alliance with Hewlett-Packard Company to develop integrated virus protection technology for OpenMail, Hewlett-Packard's enterprise-wide messaging infrastructure for heterogeneous environments and large user populations.

Working closely with Hewlett-Packard engineers, Trend Micro Inc. will adapt its e-mail scanning technology to provide ScanMail(R) for OpenMail. This will be the fifth product in the widely acclaimed ScanMail series; already, more than 3 million users of Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Mail, Lotus Notes and Lotus cc:Mail benefit from Trend's integrated ScanMail virus protection. The integration of Trend Micro's award-winning enterprise virus protection technology with Hewlett-Packard's OpenMail technology will meet growing customer demands to protect messaging environments from the rapidly increasing number of viruses travelling in e-mail attachments.

"Companies are increasingly realizing that they need to have e-mail virus protection in place to protect their messaging infrastructure from the significant productivity losses that result from virus outbreaks," said Dan Schrader, director of product marketing for Trend Micro. "By working with Hewlett-Packard to provide integrated virus protection that is easy to implement, we are helping customers to more easily adopt this core protection technology."

Customers stand to benefit tremendously from the integration of two leading-edge technologies. "Trend Micro is a leading developer of server-based virus protection technology for the enterprise and we're happy to be working with them," said Nigel Upton, product marketing manager for the Electronic Business Software Organization of Hewlett-Packard. "As a result of this collaboration, HP will be able to offer OpenMail customers the opportunity to obtain proven, top-of-the-line virus protection for their messaging infrastructure."

"Trend is delighted to have formed this strategic alliance with Hewlett-Packard to develop integrated enterprise anti-virus solutions," said Irfan Salim, President of North American and European Operations for Trend Micro. "We expect that the combination of Hewlett-Packard and Trend Micro will result in a series of technology firsts that will help enterprises meet the challenge of protecting complex mail environments."

Trend Micro's virus protection product line also includes InterScan VirusWall(R) 2.0 for Hewlett-Packard Company's enterprise-class UNIX operating system. InterScan VirusWall 2.0 for HP-UX is still the first and only virus protection available for HP-UX. More information about this and other Trend enterprise virus protection products can be obtained from Trend's web site at http://www.antivirus.com .

Trend Micro also maintains alliances with Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Netscape, Lotus, Microsoft and other vendors to deliver its superior server-centric virus protection technology to enterprise customers.

About Trend Micro

Trend Micro, based in the United States in Cupertino, CA, is the leading developer of high-performance server-based virus protection for corporate networks. Trend Micro technology protects more than 14 million users.

Trend's virus protection technology has been chosen by Intel, Netscape, Sun Microsystems, Lotus, Oracle, Control Data Systems, WorldTalk and SCO as a key part of their server security solutions.

Trend Micro's web site, http://www.antivirus.com, offers the most comprehensive enterprise-level virus protection information available on the Internet, including management advice, technology updates, and evaluation copies of all Trend's products.

Additional information about Trend's products, beyond what is available on the web site, can be obtained by sending e-mail directly to sales@trendmicro.com .

About Hewlett-Packard Company

HP is the official information-technology hardware and maintenance supplier to the 1998 World Cup soccer tournament and the 1997 Tournament of France. Selected for its technology and skills to support and manage mission-critical applications, HP will help create an information-management infrastructure for handling game-scoring; media centers; personnel accreditation; hotel information; and various ticketing, stadium, warehouse and back-office operations.

Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global provider of computing, Internet and intranet solutions, services, communications products and measurement solutions, all of which are recognized for excellence in quality and support. It is the second-largest computer supplier in the world, with computer-related revenue in excess of $35.4 billion in its 1997 fiscal year. HP has 121,900 employees and had revenue of $42.9 billion in its 1997 fiscal year.

Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com . -0-