Cisco - beware the HP/3Com China Syndrome

摘要

HP intends to challenge Cisco in the global networking market by leveraging 3Com subsidiary H3C's dominance of the Chinese networking market and 3Com's existing "China Out"strategy designed to capitalise on its strength in China. HP has announced a $US2.7B offer for 3Com, which includes 3Com's Chinese network equipment maker, H3C. In a webcast briefing on the deal, Dave Donatelli - Hewlett-Packard evp & general manager, enterprise servers and networking, said: "This deal enables HP to become a leader in one of the world's fastest-growing and most strategic IT markets, China, by virtue of 3Com's nearly 30 percent plus share of the China networking marketplace...