Tech Bytes: EDS in Software Alliance with Microsoft

Electronic Data Systems Corp. has announced an alliance with Microsoft Corp.

In Europe and North America, EDS is to design, deploy, manage, and support Microsoft server and desktop software, with emphasis on Microsoft's Windows NT server operating system.

In the financial services industry, EDS is to reconfigure its SellStation branch automation software and Cube for credit union systems to use Microsoft Windows Distributed interNet Applications for financial services, the DNAfs framework.

To support these initiatives, EDS is to train and certify 7,000 consultants. The company also will get early access to Microsoft software and training. It is to provide Microsoft with expertise on managing large- scale corporate computing infrastructures.

Microsoft technologies are already used in many EDS operations worldwide, including at Commonwealth Bank of Australia and BellSouth Telecommunications Corp.

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