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Re: oh no! 3com!
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Thu, 23 Mar 2000 01:11:36 GMT
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On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 20:00:05 GMT, mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller)
wrote:

> Jennifer L. Boger <jennr@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu> wrote:
> > just in case some of you other admins hadn't heard... 3com's getting out of the
> > high end networking business... this is a huge deal for me, since our entire
> > backbone is 3com... all the way from switches to hubs to nics (esp atm nics)
> > thought maybe someone would like to know.  here's their press release.  doh doh
> > doh.
> 
> 
> Nice headline: "3Com Announces Plans to Accelerate Growth".
> 
> That's going to be interesting here at BU too -- we've got a lot of 3com
> stuff....


Won't even be noticed here at UTK since we sold our souls to Cisco
long, long ago.  Unless they stop making 10/100 nics, in which case I
would happily switch us over to Intel anyway.

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(...) rumor has it (i haven't tried myself) that a coworker of mine called to purchase a 10/100 nic and they said "i'm sorry, we don't make those any more" imagine our shock... we only own like 15,000 of them... oh well. (27 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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(...) Nice headline: "3Com Announces Plans to Accelerate Growth". That's going to be interesting here at BU too -- we've got a lot of 3com stuff.... (27 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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