October 04, 2005 (12:49 PM EDT)
By W. David Gardner, TechWeb News

Microsoft is joining with Motorola in an alliance to improve software applications for public safety and criminal justice customers, the companies said Tuesday.
The alliance will build on several Microsoft products including its .NET framework and its Windows Server System while Motorola will utilize its NetRMS Records Management System and its Motorola Computer Aided Dispatch Software.

“These applications,” they said in a statement, “are aimed at increasing the quality of information available to first responders, … automating the mission-critical functions for a single- or multi-agency and multi-jurisdictional public safety agency.”

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