HPE working on Plan B if DoJ nixes the Juniper deal it rates as shareholders' rocket to riches

Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri remains optimistic that US regulators will allow its planned acquisition of Juniper Networks but has admitted the company has considered other plans if regulators nix the deal. The US Department of Justice in March sued to block the $14 billion merger of HPE and the networking giant …

[Korev]

If the DoJ messes up HPE's network plans would that be throwing them a Procurve ball?

[itsborken]

Deja Vu

I remember when the 3Com acquisition was once going to be the boost that HPQ needed to capture the datacenter.

[Anonymous Coward]

If they could...

...stop fucking the staff while working out quite what to do, they may have a business left once the dust settles.

[Anonymous Coward]

"rocket to riches"?

Seems unlikely. If either outfit were really going like gangbusters, you'd think they wouldn't need to merge / buyout / whatever in the first place.