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SLIDE SHOW: Mergers that could affect your network

SLIDE SHOW: Mergers that could affect your network

By:  Greg Meckbach  On: 20 Nov 2009 For: Network World Canada Creator

With HP’s bid for 3Com, Cisco’s offer for Tandberg, Nortel’s proposed sale of its enterprise assets to Avaya and Oracle’s efforts to subsume Sun Microsystems, network managers could see some major upheaval in the marketplace.

 Hewlett Packard Development Company LP’s US$2.7 billion offer to acquire 3Com Corp. is the latest in a series of mergers that could directly affect network managers.

 

HP already makes switches through its ProCurve division, and wants to get higher end core switches, plus intrusion prevention systems, by acquiring 3Com. The move comes on the heels of Cisco Systems Inc.’s offer to buy Tandberg SA, and Avaya Inc.’s bid for the enterprise assets of 3Com.

 
Check out IT World Canada's slide show of four mergers that could affect your network.
 

 


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Greg Meckbach Greg Meckbach Greg Meckbach is editor of Network World Canada and has worked for ComputerWorld Canada, Communications & Networking and Computing Canada.

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Comments (1)

clifford dutka
by clifford dutka 11/25/2009 12:16:25 PM

The HP Procurve is a far better switch in the field then the 3COM switch when your talking on enterprise levels. Also, with the new Procurve chassis coming out the backplanes are finally rivaling makers like Cisco and Extreme. Also, their accusation of Colubris was a bigger splash then this potential accusation because it gave them a big advantage in the wireless market Cisco because the integration of the controllers into their Procurve chassis (plus there modification [soon not sure if this is actually done yet] of Colubris's static license amount to dynamic license amount.

The only company I work with their equipment in this story is Tandberg so removing commenting on that none of these seem like big stories to me.

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