Macromedia and HP have formed a partnership to integrate, market and sell the Macromedia Flash Platform and the HP Service Delivery Platform (SDP) for mobile devices.

The partnership will allow carriers, network equipment providers, and telecommunication ISVs to streamline the creation of new communications, messaging, and collaboration solutions.

"We're joining forces with HP because of its deep telecom expertise and its SDP, which is the industry's most robust, standards-based service-oriented architecture," said Macromedia's vice president of telecommunications solutions Eric Weiss.

The companies say that the partnership will also allow customers to securely deploy rich multimedia services that leverage the ubiquity of Macromedia Flash Player and the depth of the HP SDP across fixed, mobile, and broadband networks.