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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...

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

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)...

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

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 ...

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...