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Found in the popular press today (not such good news for Aruba customers), the following:

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Shares of Aruba Networks ARUN, -0.64% fell 1.3% in premarket trade Monday, after the company announced an agreement to be acquired by Hewlett-Packard HPQ, -0.03% confirming media reports out last week, in a deal valued at $3 billion. The deal is expected to close in the second half of H-P's fiscal 2015. Under terms of the deal, Hewlett-Packard will pay $24.67 in cash for each outstanding Aruba share, which is below Friday's closing price of $24.81. The stock shot up 35% at the end of last week, after Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday that H-P was in talks to buy the network-products company. H-P's stock, which fell 9.5% through Friday after the report of its interest in Aruba, tacked on 0.7% in premarket trade.
 
Found in the popular press today (not such good news for Aruba customers), the following:

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Shares of Aruba Networks ARUN, -0.64% fell 1.3% in premarket trade Monday, after the company announced an agreement to be acquired by Hewlett-Packard HPQ, -0.03% confirming media reports out last week, in a deal valued at $3 billion. The deal is expected to close in the second half of H-P's fiscal 2015. Under terms of the deal, Hewlett-Packard will pay $24.67 in cash for each outstanding Aruba share, which is below Friday's closing price of $24.81. The stock shot up 35% at the end of last week, after Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday that H-P was in talks to buy the network-products company. H-P's stock, which fell 9.5% through Friday after the report of its interest in Aruba, tacked on 0.7% in premarket trade.

Probably not such bad news for Aruba customers, most of whom are not the same types of consumers that HP has traditionally targeted, but more professional and enterprise oriented. I would anticipate that if HP completes the acquisition, they'll keep Aruba mostly intact to be able to try to leverage Aruba's user base into using more of the other enterprise services and hardware that HP manufactures and markets. And who knows, maybe they'll take some of that wireless technology and also enter the already over-crowded consumer wireless router market and try to compete with companies like Asus, Netgear, Linksys, D-Link, TP-Link, etc. Could be good for everyone.
 
My next door neighbor is an ex-HP employee - VP level.
He has some other opinions of the executives at HP! o_O
 
I was a bit surprised, but at the same time, there's tremendous consolidation happening in the carrier grade space at the moment, mostly due to consolidation of their customers...
 
HP goes thru products like taylor swift goes thru boyfriends.... they will do the same with aruba's access points and there will be no more firmware upgrades and only newer cheaper made crap and even worse support.

I got two RAP109s and I might be selling those before this happens.
 
HP goes thru products like taylor swift goes thru boyfriends.... they will do the same with aruba's access points and there will be no more firmware upgrades and only newer cheaper made crap and even worse support.

I got two RAP109s and I might be selling those before this happens.
In the tech world, it may be that Cisco has stirred more acquired companies into the soup than anyone. You can see their history on line.

But the growth by acquisitions helps the revenue side, but the purchase $ and goodwill costs are prominently on the other side of the balance sheets.
 
In the tech world, it may be that Cisco has stirred more acquired companies into the soup than anyone. You can see their history on line.

But the growth by acquisitions helps the revenue side, but the purchase $ and goodwill costs are prominently on the other side of the balance sheets.

In my experience - Cisco has done somewhat of a decent job of integrating products and support post-acquisition - better than most...

Oracle - less so... but competent - my concern with them is that many times they'll buy multiple players in the same space, and sunset the one that I use (it's happened two times now in the last 24 months)

HP - they support their own gear pretty well, but lord help you if they acquire one of your vendors...

My big concern at the moment is the Lenovo acquisition of IBM's server lines.. I have quite a few blade centers and 2U rack servers (along with storage solutions)...
 
In my experience - Cisco has done somewhat of a decent job of integrating products and support post-acquisition - better than most...

Oracle - less so... but competent - my concern with them is that many times they'll buy multiple players in the same space, and sunset the one that I use (it's happened two times now in the last 24 months)

HP - they support their own gear pretty well, but lord help you if they acquire one of your vendors...

My big concern at the moment is the Lenovo acquisition of IBM's server lines.. I have quite a few blade centers and 2U rack servers (along with storage solutions)...
Lenovo may soon be found out. Or acquired by Huawei.
 
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