Level 8, HP Team on E-services - Company Business and Marketing - Brief Article

ENT, March 8, 2000

Level 8 Systems and Hewlett-Packard Co. are forming a marketing alliance that will allow customers to more easily integrate HP (www.hp.com) back-office applications with Web-based applications. The HP e3000, formerly offered as the HP 3000, will provide the Web-enabling technologies required to develop back-office applications for the Internet.

Level 8 Systems' (www.level8.com) Geneva Message Queuing middleware lets developers more easily convert HP e3000 business applications to Web-based applications to support an e-services model. The two companies plan to comarket Geneva Message Queuing to HP e3000 customers.

Geneva Message Queuing is a comprehensive implementation of Microsoft Corp. (www.microsoft.com) Message Queue Services (MSMQ) for a range of non-Windows operating systems. Level 8 Systems has an exclusive agreement with Microsoft to develop, market, and sell non-Windows versions of MSMQ.