Correction, 2:02 p.m. PST: This story misstated the number of Allin's businesses being acquired by Dell. It is two.
Dell has acquired Allin's Microsoft IT consulting business, as well as its collaboration and business applications services business, in a $12 million stock deal.
The acquisition, announced Friday, aims to bolster Dell's consulting work in the areas of designing and implementing scalable networks and application architectures via Allin's technology infrastructure business, as well as in the areas of collaboration and business applications.
"The expertise we gain from Allin further deepens our ability to help customers exploit Microsoft technologies for business advantage," Stephen Murdoch, vice president of Dell's Global Infrastructure Consulting Services, said in a statement.
The acquisition will further increase , as a means to further sales of its hardware.
The acquisition does not include Pittsburgh-based Allin's interactive media and business process consulting units.
Cisco Systems announced Wednesday plans to acquire e-mail and calendaring software maker PostPath in a $215 million deal.
The acquisition, which is scheduled to close by the end of October, is designed to bolster Cisco's collaboration portfolio by including PostPath's Linux-based e-mail and calendaring software with Cisco's "software as a service" platform.
Cisco's collaborative platform includes instant messaging, voice, video, data, document management, and Web 2.0 applications. PostPath will be folded into Cisco's Collaboration Software Group.
"The acquisition of PostPath complements our strategy to develop an integrated collaboration platform designed for how we work today and into the future, providing real productivity gains and a more satisfying user experience," Doug Dennerline, Cisco's Collaboration Software Group senior vice president, said in a statement.
Over the past two years, Cisco has focused on the collaboration market, with CEO John Chambers touting it as the next wave of innovation in the technology arena.
A major piece of that effort has been Cisco's last year. PostPath's technology will be used to enhance the current e-mail and calendaring capabilities of the WebEx Connect collaboration platform.
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