3com
3Com Corporation was a networking-technology pioneer founded in 1979 by Robert Metcalfe, the co-inventor of Ethernet, and colleagues; its name derived from "Computer, Communication, and Compatibility." 3Com built Ethernet network interface cards, switches, routers, and enterprise networking and security hardware, and at one point owned the Palm handheld computing business. An early Mayfield Fund portfolio investment (seed participation in 1981, alongside NEA, Venrock, and Sequoia), 3Com later operated the 3Com, H3C, and TippingPoint brands before being acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2010 for roughly $2.7 billion, after which the standalone brand was wound down. This record is a historical company profile; 3Com no longer operates an independent developer portal, public API, or live product surface (the 3com.com domain now serves a placeholder page).
Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.
3com is tracked in the API Evangelist network. This page is the human-readable profile that sits on top of the machine-readable index we maintain at apis.io.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — 3com scores 6.8/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
3com is in the network as a tracked entity. We haven't yet indexed a public API surface for it — when one is published, the artifacts, score, and agent-readiness read will appear here automatically. The source repository is where that profile is built.
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