HP (HPQ) and Microsoft (MSFT) this week announced they’re teaming up to help provide new revenue streams to value-added resellers. The VARs will benefit from a joint software-plus-services business model, the companies said.
"This initiative recognizes the strength of HP's and Microsoft's strong partner ecosystem and expands it to give our VARs a scalable and profitable path to delivering partner-hosted software plus services," said John Zanni, general manager of the Worldwide Software Plus Services Industry in the Communications Sector at Microsoft.