Curious to know people's opinions (employees and non-employees) regarding if this layoff will have a major negative impact to current/new customers of Riverbed's technology (legacy opnet products included). I realize it will affect support and professional services work, but what about roadmap stuff..........like new language support for AppInternals....node.js for example?
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Riverbed or call it riverdead is a absolute con-club. Shareholders and fund managers trying to drain more cash out of it to enhance their portfolios. Not looking any good for customers and even worse for the employees who have been constantly fooled.
In technology and software in particular it's not always who puts the most resources, but who has the most productive teams that builds the killer products. I've seen 5 person teams out build 50.
Do you think people are still motivated to build amazing products when many of their key teammates are getting paid summer vacations (severance), there's no more options, senior management is saying little or just reading from a script...
We're being told 90% of all development is done in Java &.Net so language xyz (node.js, php, ruby, python) doesn't really matter. Is that true?
Also what's not being told is that even with Java support, there is only support for a small number of stacks (things like axis, weblogic T3, etc... some are some are not)
Irrespective of what it may "sound" to some people, this happens to be closer to the truth than many Riverbedders, with their head buried in sand, wish. Anonymous104535's attitude is exactly the one barinwashed by Jerry & Co which eventually has led to our demise and cheap sell-off. Check out the Q@ partner sell strategy for Riverbed vs. Cisco for REAL and then talk.
Sounds like someone works for or sells Cisco.
Having spoken to some customers, I don't really think they are thinking too much about it. Cisco's iWAN is definitely gaining traction - its on Gartner's Magic quadrant's leader's section now and as at least a couple of customer's commented: Riverbed is now RiverDEAD. Life cycle? Riverbed is Riverdead - not much life left in there. At the time EOL comes if for most products, customers will and some already are, doing PoC's with iWAN. I know first hand that at least one of riverbed's SP partnes in Europe are now testing and certifying and pushing iWAN rather than stelheads. RIP Riverbed...or is it Riverdead?!