At the end of last century, Cisco and 3Com, two giants in the data communication industry, had fierce competition. In the end, Cisco won and became the dominant player in the industry at that time. However, just as the two giants were deadlocked, Huawei quietly rose and successfully entered the American market. In 2003, Cisco sued Huawei for infringement of intellectual property rights in American courts, hoping to squeeze Huawei out of the American market by this means. In order to cope with Cisco's lawsuit and strive for the American network communication market, Huawei and American 3Com jointly established a joint venture company-"Huawei 3Com". At that time, Huawei held 5 1%, 3Com held 49%, and its headquarters was located in Hangzhou.
In the second stage, Huawei sold all its shares and H3C was formally established.
In 2006 -2007, Huawei sold 2% and 49% of the shares of "Huawei 3Com" to 3Com twice, and handed over all the enterprise network business to H3C. Since then, "Huawei 3Com" has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of 3Com and officially changed its name to "H3C" (H3C). There is no official statement about the reason for the sale.
In the third stage, HP acquired H3C, and its business declined sharply.
In 2008, due to poor management, 3Com planned to sell H3C. Huawei had been focusing on the carrier market at that time, and H3C was at the forefront of the enterprise network market. Therefore, Huawei wants to buy its own H3C and compete fully with Cisco. However, due to the unsuccessful intervention of the US government, Cisco should have made many bad attempts. In the end, 3Com and H3C were acquired by HP.
However, Huasan's life at HP is not easy. First, a large number of its businesses were split by HP, and then the voice of information security triggered by the Snowden incident became louder and louder. In addition, Alibaba put forward the "IOE removal movement" (IOE means IBM, Oracle, EMC, and IOE is to reduce dependence on foreign products and replace the products of the above three companies with domestic products). Therefore, at that time, the mood of boycotting foreign products was high, and Huasan was regarded as foreign capital. Of course, HP is more difficult. During 20 14 years, due to poor management, the company was divided into "Hewlett-Packard Company" and "Hewlett-Packard Enterprise".
The fourth stage, thoroughly remould oneself, "Xinhua Group III was established".
After years of suffering, 20 16 finally has a dawn. Ziguang Group bought 5 1% equity of Huasan Company from Hewlett-Packard Company for US$ 2.5 billion, and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) held another 49% equity. Ziguang Group became the controlling shareholder of Huasan. Since then, Huasan has the coveted background of state-owned enterprises and the status of domestic enterprises, and formally established the "Xinhua III Group".
At present, Xinhua III is the core enterprise of Ziguang Group, with the overall capabilities of digital infrastructure such as chips, computing, storage, network, 5G, security and terminals, 9 industries and 7 overseas branches, more than 50 sales and service organizations, and its products and services exceed 100 countries and regions, and the number of patent applications exceeds 12000, of which 90. A large number of products of the company rank first in China, including enterprise WLAN, Ethernet switch, non-X86 server, blade server, cloud management platform, domestic brand server virtualization, SDN software, IT unified operation and maintenance software and other products, all of which rank first in China, while x86 server, storage, enterprise network router, hyper-convergence and other products rank second in China. At the same time, Xinhua III is the exclusive supplier of HPE servers, storage and technical services in China.
The future "Xinhua Group III" has a bright future.