First, let’s alpha with some audacious challenges adverse the HP-3Com combo. Alas, 3Com doesn’t accept abundant of a approach story. Many VARs alone 3Com’s networking business as 3Com itself alone its approach arch in March 2008.
Some pundits say the HP-3Com admixture creates a networking giant. But let’s accumulate the circuit beneath control. It takes Cisco Systems about two weeks to bout 3Com’s anniversary revenues ($1.3 billion).
Still, HP’s ProCurve networking aggregation gets some key technology and all-embracing ability from the 3Com buyout. For starters, 3Com has a ambit of IP telephony, routers, switches, arrangement management, aegis and wireless offerings. But conceivably added importantly, 3Com’s H3C business assemblage has a able attendance in China.
As Yankee Group told The New York Times in May 2008:
“H3C is their advance path, not acceptable 3Com being in the U.S.,” said Zeus Kerravala, arrangement accessories analyst at Yankee Group in Boston. “Their cast has absolutely been blah here.”
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