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If you go to product registration on the 3COM website, you can see at the bottom of the browser window that it redirects to secure-HTTP website "userreg.3com.sbs.siemens.com". This means Siemens, the leading german industrial and telecoms electronic manufacturer giant has purchased 3COM but they are keeping this secret. 195.70.48.242 07:43, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Do you feel lucky? Type 3Com and Siemens in Google and press "I'm Feeling Lucky" !
In the late 90s US Robotics had two big winners on its hands, the USR modem and the Palm Pilot. It wasn't long after 3Com acquired USR that the dialup modem market began to disappear due to be rapid expansion of broadband internet. A few years later, we are seeing the Palm operating system giving over to the Pocket PC. I wonder if 3Comm thinks their purchase of US Robotics was worthwhile.-- Landroo 17:19, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
The page should mention that 3Com once had their name on Candlestick Park, later renamed Pac Bell Park. http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/ballplayers/C/Candlestick_Park.stm Quasar2112 05:20, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
I noticed that there are several external links under "Business Data" that provides financial information (Google, Yahoo, Hoovers, etc) with stock info, and the like. We provide company profiles as well, and have a profile for 3Com which can be viewed here: 3Com Company Profile Can this link be added with the external resources?
Bizjournals 16:53, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
The assertion that 3com was second to Intel in networking equipment is dead wrong. 3com was to the NIC what Cisco was to the network router. What about the 3c5xx (ISA) and 3c9xx (PCI) series of network cards? Surely 3com was killing any sales of Intel cards when those were at their height in the late 90's. To be even more blunt, I still would doubt that Intel has even come close to matching 3com's market share in the 90's. It may be true today that Intel has become a leader, after 3com exited the NIC business due to mismanagement, but for the bulk of networking history it wasn't. You have to take into account more than just recent history when making such assertions, according to WP policy. Please get your facts straight. This article is lacking in many other aspects, but this is the most glaring. -- 130.127.121.188 ( talk) 18:00, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
Seems that the article needs a bit of rearranging. Shouldn't a history be arranged chronologically?-- SidP ( talk) 01:37, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
I had tweaked the statement that explains where the name 3Com came from, and included a YouTube source where Bob Metcalf himself explains to the camera how he came up with the name. This edit got reverted under the rationale that I was in violation of Wikipedia's YouTube policy, WP:NOYT. Clearly this editor has a gross misunderstanding of what that policy is saying. Just because the policy is abbr as "NOYT", it does not mean that YouTube should never be used as a reference. YouTube often contains many excellent sources which are great, particularly when they are authentic primary sources, as I had used, and solid secondary sources.
YouTube has a wealth of such reliable references. The purpose of NOYT is to prevent spurious videos of totally unreliable origin from being cited as fact. I am reverting the revert, and maybe others here would like to help explain to Jeremy112233 that NOYT does not mean "don't every cite a YouTube video". = Dustin Dewynne ( talk) 18:15, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
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It seem Howard Charney is a potential article name, as he is the former senior vice president of CISCO. see https://www.scu.edu/news-and-events/press-releases/2018/may-2018/retired-cisco-executive-3com-founder-howard-charney-to-speak-at-santa-clara-law-commencement.html Matthew hk ( talk) 11:03, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
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If you go to product registration on the 3COM website, you can see at the bottom of the browser window that it redirects to secure-HTTP website "userreg.3com.sbs.siemens.com". This means Siemens, the leading german industrial and telecoms electronic manufacturer giant has purchased 3COM but they are keeping this secret. 195.70.48.242 07:43, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Do you feel lucky? Type 3Com and Siemens in Google and press "I'm Feeling Lucky" !
In the late 90s US Robotics had two big winners on its hands, the USR modem and the Palm Pilot. It wasn't long after 3Com acquired USR that the dialup modem market began to disappear due to be rapid expansion of broadband internet. A few years later, we are seeing the Palm operating system giving over to the Pocket PC. I wonder if 3Comm thinks their purchase of US Robotics was worthwhile.-- Landroo 17:19, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
The page should mention that 3Com once had their name on Candlestick Park, later renamed Pac Bell Park. http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/ballplayers/C/Candlestick_Park.stm Quasar2112 05:20, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
I noticed that there are several external links under "Business Data" that provides financial information (Google, Yahoo, Hoovers, etc) with stock info, and the like. We provide company profiles as well, and have a profile for 3Com which can be viewed here: 3Com Company Profile Can this link be added with the external resources?
Bizjournals 16:53, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
The assertion that 3com was second to Intel in networking equipment is dead wrong. 3com was to the NIC what Cisco was to the network router. What about the 3c5xx (ISA) and 3c9xx (PCI) series of network cards? Surely 3com was killing any sales of Intel cards when those were at their height in the late 90's. To be even more blunt, I still would doubt that Intel has even come close to matching 3com's market share in the 90's. It may be true today that Intel has become a leader, after 3com exited the NIC business due to mismanagement, but for the bulk of networking history it wasn't. You have to take into account more than just recent history when making such assertions, according to WP policy. Please get your facts straight. This article is lacking in many other aspects, but this is the most glaring. -- 130.127.121.188 ( talk) 18:00, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
Seems that the article needs a bit of rearranging. Shouldn't a history be arranged chronologically?-- SidP ( talk) 01:37, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
I had tweaked the statement that explains where the name 3Com came from, and included a YouTube source where Bob Metcalf himself explains to the camera how he came up with the name. This edit got reverted under the rationale that I was in violation of Wikipedia's YouTube policy, WP:NOYT. Clearly this editor has a gross misunderstanding of what that policy is saying. Just because the policy is abbr as "NOYT", it does not mean that YouTube should never be used as a reference. YouTube often contains many excellent sources which are great, particularly when they are authentic primary sources, as I had used, and solid secondary sources.
YouTube has a wealth of such reliable references. The purpose of NOYT is to prevent spurious videos of totally unreliable origin from being cited as fact. I am reverting the revert, and maybe others here would like to help explain to Jeremy112233 that NOYT does not mean "don't every cite a YouTube video". = Dustin Dewynne ( talk) 18:15, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
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