What a humiliation! Read the DOJ complaint.

HPE Aruba have really shot themselves in the foot this time. How does Aruba compete now if the merger doesn't go through?

https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1387541/dl
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• In 2021 and 2022, HPE and Juniper were the top two contenders for a multi-million-dollar contract to provide WLAN solutions to a large research university in the Northeast. HPE’s sales teams described the opportunity as “a very competitive deal against [Juniper’s] Mist that we need to win” and sought approval for a 79 percent discount on hardware and a 73 percent discount on software to win the deal. Juniper ultimately won the contract.

• In 2023, HPE and Juniper were the top two contenders to provide WLAN solutions to a large research university system in the Northwest—an HPE Aruba customer since 2005—and each offered discounts against each other to win the contract. Juniper ultimately won the contract, and an HPE executive described the loss as “a big hit, surprise.”
• In 2023, HPE and Juniper were the top two contenders for a $100 million contract to provide WLAN solutions to a large healthcare system. Both parties discounted deeply to win the business, which Juniper ultimately won. Reflecting on the loss, HPE’s Head of Sales for the Americas wrote, “This is a huge blow and Juniper will leverage this one and continu[e] to bring credibility to there [sic] solution.”
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Someone used the word "Irrecoverable" below and that's all that really needs to be said here.

Antonio Neri is a good leader

Wait, are you telling me there’s no deal? Tony’s bonus is gone? So what now—his belly deflates, his teeth lose their VIP status, and he actually has to book his own flights instead of using the company plane for vacation?

Teri is desperate to acquire a company declining 9% yearly..what a joke on HPE employees...and I am gonna fire you for it. Only Trump can save us by stopping this deal. MIST is only going to decline now..it is a misreported business made to look attractive

I’m just laughing at the pure language of “Ki-l Mist!” and then the plaintiff basically says that HPE was unsuccessful yet again so they had acquire Juniper Networks because it seemed like it there was no other choice.

Would we divest Aruba to buy Juniper-MIST?

He treated me like a dog, Mr. Walley! He humiliated my human decency

Time to boot Antonio Neri

more: "...in April 2023, HPE’s former Senior Vice President of Software shared feedback that, in a recent head-to head competition, HPE’s “Aruba [product] was very, very expensive” and Juniper’s “Mist [product] was [millions of dollars] cheaper.” In response, HPE’s Head of Sales for the Americas confirmed that, “everything [they] are saying is accurate . . . [o]ur 4x4 6e APs for example is approx. 400.00 list price
higher. It is ki-ling us in K12 and Higher Ed.”
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What a huge blunder to flub the deal and ki-l your own wireless business at the same time. Irrecoverable.

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