Thread regarding Riverbed Technology Inc. layoffs

@103ZtihX-1hzd and @103ZtihX-1yon it was all on the Expand. That's what tipped it. Those nose pickers were poison and ruined the entire culture of the company.

SteelApp and APM would’ve been awesome

@103ZtihX-1hzd LOLOLOLOLOLOL no it was SteelStore! Whitewater! ;-P

The real culprit for all of riverbed's woes was SteelApp (Stingray). There. I've said it. I know you were all thinking it.

Folks, no arguing please .. we are ALL good people so why bother stressing over things that were out of our control. Any product can be made better if you have resources and, sometimes, resources are always borrowed - and it goes both ways. Bottom line, we are two BU's but one Riverbed. I'll try to remain positive and leave the past "in the past".

Opnet was good 20 years ago. AR11 broken - it can collect packets fast just not report it fast - not a useful tool for near real time. NetIM, clunker. Modeler, good but only 2 customers.

CIBU had POF problems and money go POoF - agreed.

WOW...couldn’t be more wrong.

The IP that is AppInternals and Aternity...that will get sold for > $3B by EOY...is mostly OPNET DNA. Like 90% plus.

The packet handling code from ARX ate Cascade’s a– alive from Network Physics days BUT another mo–n long gone forced AR11 to ‘repurpose’ the sh–ty Shark code into the product. 11.6 ripped that junk out, and it’s a newer version of the original code.

Hmmm...more OPNET IP, hosed by other folks.

Modeler? Original first product from OPNET, the DNA of which is in NetPlanner, NetAuditor, and NetIM...still has no real peer, even 34 years later.

If the mo–ns that p-ss-d away all the $$$ on Ocedo, Xirrus, and starving the OPNET teams for daring to an actual clue hadn’t held sway, SteelCentral would have taken the company to IPO or a much better sale that the cut and slice that started today.

You have no idea of the talent drain that will happen in the next 30 days; if you’re still here, I’d have my a– knocking on doors; last one out, shut off the lights.

Opnet people can’t even setup, install or troubleshoot their own products. And you’re saying another product is at fault? It anything, opnet was the driving force behind all the bad mistakes

Ps: read a book

Agreed, the only people that’ll disagree are opnet folks. Riverbed was a great company to work for, opnet was never such a place. Do the math you analytically illiterate bozo

Nah, opnet blew and under delivered on all fronts ... and still does. I’m sure if riverbed sells the DEM BU, it’ll be a place where the old opnet or Steelcentral folks are at. It’s how the company works ... like a flesh eating disease where a microbe has been placed and ready to Multiply.

Please remove youe head out of your a– please