Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HWP) today announced the development of the Service Provider-in-a-Box (SP-in-a-Box) 2000 solution for the MicrosoftÆ Exchange 2000 and Windows‚ 2000 server. This version of the SP-in-a-Box 2000 solution offers service providers increased functionality, performance and reliability for next-generation technologies and applications based on Windows 2000 and Exchange 2000 servers and will also support "apps-on-tap," mobility and interactive WebTV solutions. The solution enables service providers to offer their customers Windows 2000- and Exchange 2000-based applications on the SP-in-a-Box framework with value-added services, such as instant and unified messaging, team collaboration workspaces and mobile access. The SP-in-a-Box 2000 solution will allow customers to deploy messaging and collaboration services faster with potentially less cost by outsourcing hardware, network and application management to a service provider. These application providers can use the SP-in-a-Box 2000 solution to scale their critical hosting environment as demand requires, and manage directory, protocol and storage issues with dedicated front-end and back-end servers.