Cisco and Microsoft make small business together

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Cisco Systems and Microsoft will begin selling bundles of their lower-priced networking equipment to small businesses in April, the two companies announced Wednesday.

The first combination is a Cisco ethernet broadband router, meant for companies of fewer than 20 employees, and Microsoft's Small Business Server 2003 Standard Edition, which is itself a combination of the Windows Server operating system and Microsoft's Exchange e-mail server software. Included in the deal is integration support and software so router and server can work together.