November 19, 2009
11.12.2009 – On November 11th, HP acquired 3Com for $2.7 billion USD effectively drawing a line in the sand. HP had long been one of Cisco’s biggest resellers until Cisco moved into HP’s data center server space earlier this year when it introduced the Unified Computing System. Since Cisco made the clear decision to compete against HP in the server space, HP has made moves to develop and improve its enterprise networking products. HP and its channel partners are pushing ProCurve gear over Cisco, and the game is on.
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Tags: 3com, Cisco, green it, hp, info tech, network computing, virtualization
