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To: Freeflight who wrote ()	5/12/1999 12:17:00 PM
From: Freeflight	of 116

Benhamou said 3Com currently has too much revenue coming from mature businesses. The firm derives 45 percent of its sales from older niches, like networking cards, and another 45 percent from existing growth businesses, like network switching. Yet only 10 percent of the company's revenue comes from emerging opportunities, the chief executive said. Looking ahead, Benhamou said he wanted 3Com's so-called mature products to account for only 25 percent of revenues. At stake here is the future of 3Com, which was once thought to be a toe-to-toe competitor to industry titans like Cisco Systems, the Bay Networks arm of Nortel Networks, and Cabletron Systems. As Cisco got bigger and Bay got bought, 3Com just tread water, seemingly unsure of which direction to go. While 3Com's rivals jump into the telecommunications equipment fray, the company is focusing on the consumer market as it attempts to shed its mature businesses in favor of emerging opportunities.

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