The recent acquisition of 3Com by HP makes me wonder what they are going to do in the networking market. For some time, we have been using HP Procurve switches along side Cisco gear. They have proven reliable and very cost effective. I have been looking forward to HP enchancing its offerings. In light of Cisco expanding into the server market, there was an expectation that HP would more aggressively address the networking market and create better choices for lower cost networking devices. It just doesn’t seem like the 3Com product line is sufficient for HP to go head-to-head with Cisco. This makes me think that HP is not even close to being done from an acquisition standpoint. I wonder when we will see HP drop another huge chunk of change to buy another device vendor. And who will the vendor be?
Anybody want to comment on who they think HP will buy next or do you think 3Com products sufficiently supplement the HP Procurve line?
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