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From: morgan@jessica.stanford.edu (RL "Bob" Morgan)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: 3COM woes (was 3COM bridge resets)
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Message-ID: <1991Jan8.025328.4406@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 8 Jan 91 02:53:28 GMT
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Well, continuing along the line of 3Com troubles, I'll just call to
everyone's attention the article from InfoWorld, 12/24-31/90, entitled
"3Com Bails Out of LAN Manager Boat, Turns Product Sales Over to
Microsoft."  The article is a little unlcear, as the spin 3Com people
put on the shift is "reducing customer confusion," but it sounds like
they're giving up on 3+Open.  Eric Benhamou, 3Com president, is quoted
as saying "Applications is a world we're going to leave to other
people."  For those of us who have worked with their stuff going back
to EtherSeries (ca. 1985, or was it '84?), it's kind of the end of an
era . . .

 - RL "Bob" Morgan
   Networking Systems
   Stanford