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• Polycom to Acquire HP Halo and Managed Services, Become HP's Exclusive Partner for Video UC
Polycom announced it is acquiring HP's Visual Collaboration Business Unit, including HP's Halo products and Managed Services, and the two companies have entered into a deep strategic agreement through which Polycom will become HP's exclusive partner for telepresence and video UC solutions. This will create an end-to-end UC solution that will deliver to our joint customers an unparalleled user experience, interoperability, investment protection, and ease of deployment.
• Industry's First Open Visual Communications Consortium to Drive B2B and B2C Video Communication
Polycom introduced the revolutionary Open Visual Communications Consortium (OVCC), a breakthrough open video exchange cloud with the world's leading service providers that will enable visual communications beyond corporate firewalls and proprietary video platforms. The OVCC will enable global businesses to connect everywhere and make it easy for millions to communicate via video as simply as they connect by mobile phones.
• Polycom and Microsoft Expand Strategic Partnership and Extend Joint Development Agreements
Polycom and Microsoft are developing two new breakthroughs in enterprise UC that will expand the companies' joint development and go-to-market activities on multiple fronts. A breakthrough new solution, code-named "Rally," will be the first and only room telepresence solution with an embedded Lync™ client, and will natively integrate with Microsoft's Office 365 cloud offering, running on Lync Server as well as premise-based Lync systems.
• Two-for-one Stock Split
In addition to these industry break-through developments, Polycom also announced a two-for-one split of its common stock with a record date of June 15, 2011.
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