[advertise]广告[/advertise]11/12/2009, HP announced to accquire 3Com by 2.7billion USD cash. A Chinese financial newspaper analyzed that China factor played a very important deal behand this deal. As the giant in IT industray around the world, HP is always aiming the market of Cisco. Of course, after accquiring 3Com, HP can have better resource to compete with Cisco. 3Com's switch and router products can help HP find a good start in this market. Also, this accquision can give HP better position in China market. Several years after Huawei and 3Com joinventured, 3Com's key resource is now in China, not in the US. Like UTStarcom, Today's 3Com is more a Chinese company than a US company. Among the 6000 employees of 3Com, 4800 of them works in China. Nearly the total R&D team of 3Com is in China. 3Com's revenue in year is 1.8billion USD, 50% of it came from Huawei-3Com. In switch routher market, Huawei-3Com's market share in China is more than 30%, only behind Cisco. So we can say at least in China market, HP will be a stronger competitor to Cisco in the future. Chinse telecom giant once hoped to accquired 3Com, but the deal was rejected by the US government for secureaty reason. At that time, Huawei aimed at 3Com's resource in the US market. This time, you can say that HP bought 3Com for their China factor.