HP aquire 3Com
24th Nov 2009
HP and 3Com announced that HP will acquire 3Com for about $2.7 billion. Obviously, with HP’s Procurve unit currently the only company other than Cisco to enjoy a spot in Gartner’s leadership quadrant for enterprise LAN and 3Com’s focus on all things networking, there is quite a bit of overlap between HP’s current offerings and those provided by 3Com. At the same time, this acquisition will help HP expand their share of the networking market. But there is a distinct possibility that HP’s expansion in enterprise LAN and the resulting product changes that will probably have to take place could change HP’s current approach, which have been very customer-friendly, to policies that might not be quite as beneficial to the customer but that would improve the bottom line for HP.
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Colin Mulhern, Programme Manager
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