[c-nsp] [j-nsp] Network Liberation Movement???

[Pavel Skovajsa]

In my opinion HP bought 3com in order to get its market share in China and
Asia, I doubt they will dump their product lines of the Provision ASIC
switches.

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The acquisition of 3Com will dramatically expand HP’s Ethernet switching
offerings, add routing solutions and significantly strengthen the company’s
position in China – one of the world’s fastest-growing markets – via the H3C
offerings. In addition, the combination will add a large and talented
research and development team in China that will drive the acceleration of
innovations to HP’s networking solutions.
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-pavel skovajsa

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:07 PM, <chris at lavin-llc.com> wrote:

> Snippet:
>
> >The university I worked at as a student did a
> > whole campus replacement of Cisco for ProCurve.
> >
> > ~Seth
>
> I'm involved in an 'alternative switch vendor' discussion and lab testing.
> ProCurve and Juniper switches are in our lab and undergoing some poking
> and proding.
>
> I am not at all familiar with HP ProCurve. The recent announcement
> concerns me. What happens if during the overlap analysis HP dumps some of
> their product line? Did we lose time making an effort to learn new
> products, configurations and vendor-suggested best practices? Knowing
> almost everyone's shop runs too thin and too fast, losing ground to
> incorporate something that may no longer be sold seems like a possible
> mistake in judgement and a blow to morale.
>
> -chris
>
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