US Justice Department settles antitrust case for HPE's $14B takeover of Juniper
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Re: US Justice Department settles antitrust case for HPE's $14B takeover of Juniper
#12I don't understand HPE: they bought Aruba, already had a strong wired switches division. They also bought Cray, which obviously has their own advanced networking expertise. And now Juniper? It is not like they lack in-house talent, they have it!
My employer used to have some HP switches in one of our campus offices when we were smaller, all of that gear has, to my knowledge, been pulled out and replaced with Cisco gear over the last 6 or so years. I really wouldn't call them "strong" by any means, the SMB niche they historically filled is filled with vendors competing for smaller business networks (I trust HP/HPE as far as I can throw them to not botch another acquisition, because regardless of any talent they have (or acquire), their management repeatedly manages to torpedo it. Out of any large player in the networking space, Juniper's gear is such a breath of fresh air because of their long-term focus on software, JunOS and supporting products are what sells their hardware instead of the other way around, so here's hoping they don't find a way to fuck it up (don't hold your breath).