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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 14, 2010.
Registration No. 033-63547
 
 
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
 
POST EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1
TO FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
 
3COM CORPORATION
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
     
Delaware   94-2605794
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
  (IRS Employer Identification No.)
     
3000 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, California   94304
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)   (Zip Code)
 
Certain Individual Employee Stock Options Assumed by 3Com Corporation and Granted Under
the Chipcom Corporation 1983 Stock Option Plan, 1991 Stock Option Plan and 1991 Director
Option Plan and Under the Artel Communications Corporation Stock Option Plan Assumed by
Chipcom Corporation
(Full Title of the Plans)
 
Paul T. Porrini
3000 Hanover Street
Palo Alto, California 94304
(650) 857-1501
(Name, Address and Telephone Number,
Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)
 
 

 


 

REMOVAL FROM REGISTRATION
This Post-Effective Amendment, filed by 3Com Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), deregisters all securities registered for issuance under the Registration Statement on Form S-8, File No. 033-63547, which was filed with the SEC on October 19, 1995 (the “Registration Statement”).
On April 12, 2010, pursuant to the terms of the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of November 11, 2009, among the Company, Hewlett-Packard Company, a Delaware corporation (“HP”), and Colorado Acquisition Corporation, a Delaware corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of HP (“Merger Sub”), Merger Sub merged with and into the Company, with the Company continuing as the surviving corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of HP (the “Merger”). In connection with the Merger, the Company has terminated all offerings of its securities pursuant to its existing registration statements under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, including the Registration Statement. In accordance with an undertaking made by the Company in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any securities registered under the Registration Statement that remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Company hereby removes from registration all securities registered but unsold under the Registration Statement.

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SIGNATURES
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Palo Alto, State of California, on the 14th day of April, 2010.
         
  3Com corporation
 
 
  By   /s/ Paul T. Porrini    
    Name:   Paul T. Porrini   
    Title:   President and Secretary   

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