Hewlett Packard & Co. and IBM Corp. in separate announcements on Monday said they are prepared to make multimillion dollar investments to support technology deployments. HP intends to invest $500 million as part of a strategy to build three SOA Competency Centers where customers can test SOA platforms. IBM has agreed to finance customers deploying RFID projects.
The opening of the HP SOA Competency Centers in the United States, Singapore and India, brings the company's count to five centers worldwide. The other two are located in Sophia Antipolis, France; and Tokyo.
