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Bill Krause joined as President in 1981 and became CEO in 1982 and led 3Com until 1992 when he retired. 3Com began making Ethernet adapter cards for many early 1980s computer systems, including the DEC LSI-11, DEC VAX-11, Sun-2 and the IBM PC.
- 3Com at The Dotcom Boom
- How 3Com’s Long Decline Happened
- Why 3Com Failed
- Who Bought 3Com
- 3Com Today
Around the time of the dotcom boom, 3Com was a 5.8 billion dollar company. They were founded in 1979 by Bob Metcalfe, the co-inventor of Ethernet. And for the next two decades, they were thego-to brand for network cards. While the 3C501 network card is notoriously bad, their other cards from the 1980s and 1990s are very well regarded, and always we...
But after the dotcom bust, 3Com faded away. What happened to 3Com, ultimately, was a series of bad decisions that led to a loss of profitability. Some of them may have made sense at the time. But not all of them. The first thing that happened was 3Com walked away from its enterprise networking equipment business. Admittedly Cisco was hard to compet...
Ultimately, 3Com failed because it was too dependent on network cards. Network cards accounted for about half their revenue during their bust years. And their cards were expensive. Intel undercut their price to try to gain market share, and they succeeded. And then they did exactly the wrong thing. It was the late ’90s, and they bought their way in...
So what happened to 3Com? 3Com didn’t go out of business and they didn’t sell out to Huawei. They got Compaqed. Hewlett-Packard bought them out, which seems to be where every great ’90s technology company went to die. Hewlett-Packard paid 2.7 billion dollars in late 2009 for 3Com’s assets. HP still sells network equipment like switches, routers, an...
Vintage 3Com network cards are very popular with retro computing enthusiasts. It had top-tier name recognition in the 80s and 90s. All but their very earliest cards generally have good driver support, work well, and are easier to configure than most of the cheaper competitors. My favorite retro network card is a very specific Intel card, but if you...
3Com is a global provider of enterprise and small-business networking solutions, offering network switches, routers, wireless access points and controllers, IP voice systems, and intrusion prevention systems. The company is based in Massachusetts, USA.
Learn how 3Com, founded by Ethernet inventor Robert Metcalfe, became a leading provider of computer networking products, systems, and services. Explore its key milestones, acquisitions, and spinoffs, from 1979 to 2000.
3Com Corporation offers high-performance networking and security products under three brands: H3C, 3Com, and TippingPoint. Learn more about 3Com's history, products, and locations on LinkedIn.
A comprehensive list of network devices and software products sold by 3Com, a company acquired by HP in 2010. The list includes switches, routers, access points, security appliances, and more.
Apr 12, 2004 · 3Com turns 25 this June, but the Ethernet pioneer probably won’t spend much time celebrating – it’s too busy fighting to stay relevant.
