HP has bought 3Com (http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2010/100412xa.html) which gives HP an impressive end to end product range or service delivery or whatever the jargon is.

HP are saying they are committed to becoming market leader in networking, as they already do plenty with servers, clients, desktops, laptops and what’s that other thing? Oh yes, printers they pretty much have it covered. What isn’t mentioned there (it would spoil the flow for the printers gag) is software / services which they also have covered via their previous EDS acquisition.

They are already the worlds largest IT company (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_by_revenue - c’mon, wikipedia is never wrong!) so I guess it’s a case of tomorrow the world, mha-ha-ha-ha etc.