Re:The first page of the article sums it up (Score 1)

I have never used their routers, but 3Com's switches have always been of great quality. We used to use them exclusively at the college I work at, but we have been phasing them out in favor of Extreme Networks equipment over the last 3 years. Why did we dump 3Com? Because of the core switches. 3Com killed support for the models that we and every other college in the state had, and did not offer the options that Extreme and Cisco offered in their products. Several of the colleges actually needed the expandability a Black Diamond offers. 3Com just did not have the products to do the job for all of us.