Veritas Software has expanded a partnership with software giant Microsoft in a move expected to augment Veritas' customer base and be "incremental" to revenue, Veritas said Monday. Mountain View, Calif.-based Veritas was built on storage-management products for Unix, an open-source operating system that runs computers and servers and competes with Microsoft's proprietary Windows system. Microsoft's Windows 2000 operating system now embeds technology from three Veritas storage-management products. Those products are designed to simplify the difficult and time-consuming task of backing up and managing information stored in database software sold by Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and others. In addition to insuring that data always be available to people, Veritas' products guard against data loss due to crashes and other mishaps. The end goal of the companies' expanded alliance is to build new software tailored for Microsoft's SQL Server database and ship it next year.
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