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    3Com Story Team
    • Feb 28, 2019
    • 1 min

    Executive Spotlight: Jeff Thermond

    So, who is this Jeff Thermond? Jeff is very smart, swears like a sailor, and discovered his love of technology all the way back when he w...

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    3Com Story Team
    • Feb 21, 2019
    • 2 min

    Executive Spotlight: Chris Paisley

    Chris is one of the friendliest finance guys in the room, always smiling, and always looking for something humorous to add to the story. ...

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    3Com Story Team
    • Feb 15, 2019
    • 1 min

    Executive Spotlight: Doug Spreng

    Doug Spreng has always greeted me with a smile and a kinetic energy that is contagious. Even with a bad right ankle (see his photo below)...

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    3Com Story Team
    • Feb 7, 2019
    • 1 min

    Executive Spotlight: Leon Woo

    Leon was a founder of Synernetics, the pioneering Ethernet switching company that was acquired by 3Com in 1994. This acquisition took pla...

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    3Com Story Team
    • Jan 31, 2019
    • 1 min

    3Comers Catching Up

    When I joined 3Com in 1989, its campus was located on Kifer Road in Santa Clara. On my first day, I recall walking with some of the team ...

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    3Com Story Team
    • Jan 25, 2019
    • 1 min

    What's in your Interop?

    Interop 2009 was a memorable event that led to HP eventually acquiring 3Com. 3Com had not attended Interop the previous five years. Amy P...

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    3Com Story Team
    • Jan 17, 2019
    • 2 min

    Dr. Zheng or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the China Venture

    At the founding of the H3C venture in 2003, Dr. Shusheng Zheng was Huawei’s CTO working for Ren Zhengfei. Zheng helped develop H3C’s orig...

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    3Com Story Team
    • Jan 12, 2019
    • 1 min

    Saturday Morning Cartoon

    Hey! We have made an update to our cartoon of executives to give credit where credit is due – in China! We’ve added Dr. Zheng along with ...

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    3Com Story Team
    • Jan 3, 2019
    • 1 min

    30th Birthday Party!

    In 2009, 3Com's 30th anniversary not only gave us the fun time capsule in the previous post, but also warranted a big party in Marlboroug...

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    3Com Story Team
    • Dec 21, 2018
    • 1 min

    Company Secrets Inside

    It was a dark and stormy day; the rain fell in torrents. Here I was with Ron Sege, a one-time President and COO of 3Com, breaking in — pe...

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    3Com Story Team
    • Dec 19, 2018
    • 1 min

    Steve Jobs' Failure Helped 3Com's Success

    Today’s New York Times covered Steve Jobs’ desire to manufacture in Fremont, California. Ultimately the Macintosh factory was closed in 1...

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    3Com Story Team
    • Dec 9, 2018
    • 1 min

    Doug Engelbart and the Digital Revolution

    50 years ago today, on December 9, 1968, Doug Engelbart sparked the tech revolution by presenting the Mother of All Demos - a stunning vi...

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    3Com Story Team
    • Nov 29, 2018
    • 2 min

    Waking the Dragon - The Courtship of Huawei's Father

    In China, the dragon stands for potent and auspicious powers, and can refer to power, strength, and good luck.  One Chinese dragon in par...

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    3Com Story Team
    • Nov 10, 2018
    • 1 min

    Powered by the People

    At its core, this book is a collaboration between the author and the dozens of former 3Comers that were interviewed for the story. The fi...

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    3Com Story Team
    • Nov 2, 2018
    • 1 min

    The 6 O'Clock News Rule

    3Com had a strong “do the right thing” culture but didn’t adopt an official code of conduct until 1989. A funny story about this was rela...

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    3Com Story Team
    • Oct 13, 2018
    • 2 min

    Lawyers as superheroes?

    Bryan Butler, Rest in Peace - left us this month on October 1, 2018. Bryan was instrumental in protecting 3Com from bigger bullies like I...

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    3Com Story Team
    • Sep 25, 2018
    • 1 min

    Is there a West Coast - East Coast divide in business?

    Take our completely unscientific survey to let us know! https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/QJDFMPW

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    3Com Story Team
    • Sep 25, 2018
    • 1 min

    Can you find Ron, Janice, Nachman, Steve, Waldo, anyone else you remember?

    3Com hosted regular partner meetings worldwide, this one was in 1995 on Cheju Island (sometimes called Jeju) in South Korea. A good time...

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    3Com Story Team
    • Sep 20, 2018
    • 1 min

    A man of his word(s)

    In 1995, Bob Metcalfe famously predicted that the internet would collapse within a year. Not just collapse but “catastrophically collapse...

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    3Com Story Team
    • Sep 14, 2018
    • 1 min

    Where were you in 1984?

    Congrats to the early founders of 3Com that took the company public in 1984. Thank you Bob Metcalfe for sharing this t-shirt with us! W...

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