RE: OT: 3Com to be sold to HP for $2.7b

Similarities are due to the fact that they "stole" the IOS

Werent they taken to court by Cisco due to this ?

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From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Edmore Chingwena
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 10:05 PM
To: Johnny B CCIE
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Subject: Re: OT: 3Com to be sold to HP for $2.7b

The old Huawei VRP had similarities with cisco IOS. But the new VRP is
completely different . Worked in Huawei,s R&D for a year and HTAC for
another year and engineering service for 2 more years. The huawei VRP is
a
product of extensive development and R&D work.

The routers are powerful not Fong Kong me too products

Regards

2009/11/12 Johnny B CCIE <jbccie_at_gmail.com>

> Isn't Huawei Cisco IOS rebranded and cheaper? So now Cisco IOS is
> owned by HP and HP has the muscle to compete with Cisco using the
> non-Cisco IOS that is the Cisco IOS. HP can pump out a lot of
> certifications and grow fast.
>
> HP Certified Networking Engineer. It will be very close to the CCIE.
>
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Shaughn Smith
<shaughn.s_at_cvnnet.co.za>
> wrote:
> > Found this interesting
> >
> >
> >
> > 3Com to be sold to HP for $2.7b
> >
> > Computer giant takes aim at Cisco's network business
> >
> > Computer giant Hewlett-Packard Co.
> > <http://finance.boston.com/boston?Page=QUOTE&Ticker=HPQ> will buy
> > network equipment maker 3Com Corp. of Marlborough for $2.7 billion
in a
> > head-on challenge to Cisco Systems Inc.
> > <http://finance.boston.com/boston?Page=QUOTE&Ticker=CSCO> , which
> > dominates the network business. The deal will position HP to attack
the
> > heart of Cisco's market, and it comes only a week after Cisco teamed
up
> > with data storage titan EMC Corp.
> > <http://finance.boston.com/boston?Page=QUOTE&Ticker=EMC> of
Hopkinton
> > to invade HP's stronghold in server computers and storage.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "This is going to rock the networking world,'' said 3Com's
president,
> > Ronald Sege, adding that HP's global sales force could quickly
expand
> > 3Com's market share.
> >
> > 3Com is the second major Massachusetts tech company in the past
month to
> > be acquired by a Silicon Valley firm, as the tech sector reacts to
> > decreased business spending with a wave of consolidation deals. In
> > October, Cisco said it will pay $2.9 billion to acquire
Tewksbury-based
> > Starent Networks, a maker of network gear for cellular telephone
> > systems.
> >
> > Just last week, Cisco teamed up with EMC in a joint venture to
combine
> > their computing, storage, and networking products in a play for HP's
> > core business, enterprise computing equipment. Cisco just started
making
> > server computers this year.
> >
> > Tech giants are using mergers and alliances to quickly offer
one-stop
> > shopping to companies looking to save money by buying all their
network
> > products from a single vendor, instead of assembling corporate data
> > centers one piece at a time. "It improves the efficiency, it
improves
> > the speed of deployment, and it drives costs down,'' said Abner
> > Germanow, a networking analyst at IDC Corp. in Framingham.
> >
> > The 3Com purchase lets HP fill holes in its product mix far quicker
than
> > it could by developing its own product line from scratch. Although
it is
> > one of the world's leading makers of computer servers for big
business,
> > HP has offered only a limited range of networking hardware. Most of
that
> > has been at the "edge'' of the network, like the switches that
connect a
> > roomful of PCs and printers to a corporate system. Cisco dominates
the
> > "core'' market - switches and routers that distribute the massive
> > amounts of data streaming into the network. With 3Com, HP gets a
> > ready-made line of core network products to sell.
> >
> > Buying 3Com "gives us critical mass in a very important market,''
said
> > David Donatelli, a former top EMC executive who made a surprise move
to
> > HP in April. Donatelli will oversee 3Com in his new role as HP's
> > executive vice president of enterprise servers and networking, and
is
> > slated to take over HP's storage operations in April, when his
> > noncompete agreement with EMC expires. That will put him on the
> > frontline of HP's rivalry with the Cisco-EMC joint venture.
> >
> > The deal illustrates 3Com's return to prominence after a dramatic
> > decline earlier in the decade. 3Com was cofounded in 1979 by Bob
> > Metcalfe, one of the inventors of Ethernet, a networking technology
that
> > has since become a global standard. 3Com was originally based in
Santa
> > Clara, Calif., and its line of Ethernet products made it one of the
most
> > successful technology firms of the 1990s, employing as many as
12,000
> > workers at its peak.
> >
> > Tough competition from Cisco and the 2001 collapse of the first
Internet
> > boom devastated 3Com. The company ceded the enterprise networking
market
> > to Cisco and slashed thousands of jobs.
> >
> > 3Com now employs about 5,300 workers worldwide, including about 300
in
> > Massachusetts. Sege said he did not know how the HP acquisition
would
> > affect local 3Com workers.
> >
> > In 2003, a much diminished 3Com relocated to Marlborough. At about
the
> > same time, the company launched H3C, a joint venture with Chinese
> > networking company Huawei Technologies.
> >
> > H3C's stable of Chinese engineers developed new high-end networking
gear
> > that was embraced by fast-growing Chinese companies, and has since
> > attracted customers in Europe and Latin America. 3Com claims that
300 of
> > China's 500 largest businesses use its products, along with US
> > institutions like the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
and
> > the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
> >
> > In 2006, 3Com bought out Huawei's stake in H3C. The following year,
> > investment firm Bain Capital teamed up with Huawei on a $2.2 billion
bid
> > to acquire 3Com.
> >
> > But federal regulators blocked the bid because 3Com owns
TippingPoint, a
> > maker of network security gear used by the US Department of Defense.
> >
> > The regulators noted Huawei's close ties to the Chinese government
and
> > worried that Huawei might help Chinese intelligence officials
circumvent
> > TippingPoint technology.
> >
> > After the Bain-Huawei deal fell apart early last year, 3Com focused
on
> > developing a new line of core switches and routers that it claims
will
> > outperform Cisco gear while using much less electricity.
> >
> > HP's Donatelli said that once the deal is completed, his company's
> > 300,000 workers will exclusively use 3Com gear for networking needs.
> >
> >
> >
> > CCIE # 23962
> >
> >
> > Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net
> >
> >
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