I don’t know how SlopNet people somehow manage to screw up Riverbed. We knew it was a bad acquisition that caused the division among the riverbed originals. We know the old Opnet leaders were total sleeve balls that ran the company through fear, loathing and politics. Post acquisition, many Opnet people drained their sales funnel and left. We know SH business funded the SteelCentral BU for years which allowed for certain teams to restart their products.
On top of all this, MS somehow continue to convince that a TAM and magic quadrants equals success, which anyone will tell you is not. TAM and MQ means squat, it’s all about actual numbers like sales. If sales can’t sell your products MS, it’s not 100% sales people fault but most likely a product problem and those related to product.
The riverbed leaders are just dumb, truly not seeing past the “fake news” that is Opnet. Left on its own, Opnet would’ve died off or simply existed a tiny east cost company that people wouldn’t forgotten about.
To, my hat goes off to Opnet for fooling so many folks into finding your broken products while convincing riverbed leadership that their own product is dying and a commodity - the classic tea pot and kettle situation! The only thing I wish for these Opnet people to do is focus their politicking and lies towards our competitors rather than our Trumpish leaders because they’re not smart.