August 9,2010, Huawei Symantec is another join-ventured company for Huawei after Huawei-3Com. Huawei tried to enter storage network market through the cooperation with Symantec, Symantec also want to get bigger market share through the cooperation. But according to an article on Tianya, it is a failed cooperation.
The article criticized Huawei shortage of sincere from day one. Without enough investment in the join-ventured company, Huawei only planned to merge the company when it is bigger. Also, Huawei doesn't have the resources in network security market, so Huawei-Symantec can't get much market share from her competitors. The article pointed out that Huawei now has no much interest on this company, so there is no clear product strategy and HR policy in the company . The final result for Huawei Symantec must be that both Huawei and Symantec retrieved from the company. Following this article, some people supported the conclusion by pointing out that Huawei has their own independent storage network departments, they will definitely give up Huawei Symantec.
Forget about Huawei Symantec, some post in C114 said that Huawei's half year profit has surpassed 2billion USD. Considering last year's 18.3billion RMB profit, many people believe that the figure is true. But in the recent 4th tender of China Mobile's TD network, Huawei's share is only 30%, much lower than expected. For this result, somebody suggest Huawei to continue cut price off, some others say that Huawei should understand that government must balance between them and Datang, the government won't give all the goods to Huawei.
Comparing to Huawei, ZTE is said to layoff those employees whose performance lagged behind other colleagues. By adopting such policy, ZTE hope to cut off more cost. But somebody also take this as an example that ZTE is worse than Huawei.