Is that from their press release? I can't bear to read corporate press
releases.

But the dominant vendor in the networking market, sorry, paradigm, would be
Cisco Systems, Inc., I would think.

Cheers,

Andrew

2009/11/12 Joseph Heaton <[email protected]>

> "Companies are looking for ways to break free from the business
> limitations imposed by a networking paradigm that has been dominated by
> a single vendor,”
>
> Umm, isn't HP that dominating vendor?  So how are people to break free
> when one of the options they had is now gone?
>
>
>
> Not that I mind the merger; I've only used 3com stuff in a handful of
> places over the past 12 years.
>
> >>> "Matthew W. Ross" <[email protected]> 11/12/2009 8:52 AM
> >>>
> HP acquiring 3Com makes sense to me. 3Com is dying, as a switch
> company. I'm sure they have good engineers, patents, etc.
>
> I don't know anything about 3Com's business in China or Tipping Point.
>
> But I do remember the 3Com NBX phone system. This is an area where HP
> can expand into with the portfolio of 3Com. I'm quite interested in
> where the 3Com phone system ends up.
>
>
> --Matt Ross
> Ephrata School District
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Rick Berry
> [mailto:[email protected]]
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thu, 12 Nov 2009
> 07:39:22 -0800
> Subject: RE: HP to acquire 3com
>
>
> > Patent portfolio has value, I'm certain.
> >
> > From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 5:17 PM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: RE: HP to acquire 3com
> >
> > Meh.
> >
> > I'm not sure what the value proposition is.
> >
> > 3C509's and 3C905's were _THE_ nics back in the day. They've been on
> the
> > decline ever since.
> >
> > -sc
> >
> > From: Webster [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 4:35 PM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: HP to acquire 3com
> >
> > http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2009/091111xa.html
> >
> >
> > Webster
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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