I wonder what will happen with the 3Com brand, because IMHO 3Com > HP when it comes to networking. I suppose that it will disappear, but after how long? For example the Thinkpad brand still exists even if it was bought by Lenovo some years ago, while the Compaq brand wasn't used too much.
I wonder if the 3Com brand is worth anything these days. I haven't heard anything interesting from 3Com in years; the switching market is dominated by Cisco/Juniper/ProCurve/Brocade/Extreme and even smaller newcomers like Force10 seem to get more attention than 3Com.
