What sellable products has F5 developed internally/organically in the last 10 years?
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@c6s Amen. There’s a certain kind of person who always has something to say but rarely anything to show. They fill the air with promises, plans, and grand ideas, yet their words never seem to materialize into real action. Their conversations are full of confidence and vision, but when it comes time to act, they vanish behind excuses or distractions. It’s the classic case of mistaking noise for progress. As Linus Torvalds once said, “Talk is cheap. Show me the code.”
@b4 FLD has never built a thing in his life. He worked in management at Ciena. That was his work history. He's a smooth talker, not an entrepreneur. He was too young and inexperienced for this role.
@2sv Must be from f5 marketing/sales. It's like "modernizing: a 20 year old product.
This really speaks to how great the products are that they can evolve with the needs of customers. They're all irreplaceable in their own right, because services can customize them without the need to build separate products to address market needs. If it can't be replaced by the vendor that sells them, it's that much harder for competitors to replace as well. I bet the platformization (or Volterrazation) initiative will go the way of Big-IP Next, because it will constrain the flexibility and customizability that makes each individual product so great. There are new organic products being built all the time, it's just not called that because they are incrementally built by services and run on Big-IP, NGINX, Shape etc.
@b4 100%, that's the FLD's "STRATEGY"
@OP There are been no new sellable products.
@b4 As the Original Poster, that was my answer too. I cannot figure out anything that F5 has internally/organically developed in the last 10 years that has been sellable.
@bk as any other business. Start your own, be free to sail.
@bk May you find peace soon. You sound very anxious. I feel sorry for you.
My answer: None.
F5 has been milking the legacy BIG IP and its support service sales (90%+ profit margin) while trying to invent a new break through product which has been a failure for the past 9 years. There was no ROI on the companies F5 bought out. The only way to keep FFIV price up is to lower operating costs. RIF is the going to be a norm. CEO alone owns 153,000+ shares via bonus+performance rewards. Keeping stock price up is more important than keeping employees.
@OP Tell us.
Never heard of F5 except on my keyboard. Old fighter jet?