HP buys 3Com?
Posted on 12 November 2009
I see HP is buying 3Com. I was surprised to read this and all I can think is why? I still have a bad taste in my mouth from 2000 when 3Com pulled out of the high-end corporate network market. Before then I had a good amount of 3Com gear in the IT closets and 3Com was considered a very solid network provider. It was them or Cisco in the rack. Then after they pulled out in 2000 I was really wondered what they were planning to do.
In 2003 they started working with Huawei in China and appeared to be trying to get back into the enterprise network market with the joint venture H3C line. It sounds like that gear has done well in China and overseas, but I don’t know anyone running 3Com in their data centers today (although I’m sure there is somewhere).
I read that HP is buying 3Com to fill out their data center product line. Really? I would think HP would be better off continuing down the path they are currently on without spending 2.7 Billion for 3Com. Oh well, HP should know what they’re doing……right?
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