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HP To Acquire 3com For $2.7 Billion
An anonymous reader writes "HP and 3Com Corporation today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which HP will purchase 3Com, a leading provider of networking switching, routing and security solutions, at a price of $7.90 per share in cash or an enterprise value of approximately $2.7 billion. The terms of the transaction have been approved by the HP and 3Com boards of directors."
Next on her agenda: governor California.
Oh well, if she splits California in two it might not be a bad thing. Unless one of them winds up like Agilent.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
It's all about budgeting. They put in a line item for 2.7B acquisition, whereas you did not put in a line item for paper plates and spoons. Next time be more aggressive and the company picnic should be a little less messy.
Just you wait, my boy, just you wait...
The ether cartridge that comes with the NIC is just a starter, it'll run out within a few hundred thousand packets(less if the packets contain more than ~50% 1s). Of course, only genuine HP ether is supported, for best possible data fidelity
*breaks down sobbing*
I need a hug!
PTSD or nostalgia?
XML is a known as a key material required to create SMD: Software of Mass Destruction
This comment is so well-written, I can just envision the comic book version of it...
Kids, this is what happens when sniffing ether.
Adding 3com networking know-how to HP computing products may actually produce better products?
Hey it could happen!
3ComHPaq?
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
Banyan Vines ....
Now, that's a name I've not heard in a long time... A long time.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Yeah, I'm not impressed with 2 billion billable downloads either....
I don't want to be rude, but that has nothing to do with what I wrote.
PCI appeared, and with that the 3c905 and 3c900. Their primary distinguishing feature was that the actual chip used on the card changed every few months requiring a new driver without a change in product number.
Don Becker came one time to do a demo at work. He brought a stack of CDs to clusterify a bunch of PCs (I don't remember exactly what he was trying to accomplish, to be honest. It's long enough ago that it's fuzzy)
Anyhow, when his CDs booted, they didn't recognize the revision of the 905's in the machines. I always got a kick out of seeing Becker himself get bitten by that. Made me feel a little better about running into problems myself.
No Vista driver because the card doesn't support the HD DRM requirement for the ability check that you haven't physically modified the card in the last 1/30th of a second...
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
Stockholm ptsd--when you can't distinguish it from nostalgia.
Liberty uber alles.
Cheers to symbolset for somehow pandering to mac downsies in an enterprise networking story.
...it's the ghost of 100VG laughing from it's grave!