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F5 Acquired NGINX For $670M (zdnet.com)
Long-time Slashdot reader skdffff quotes ZDnet:
F5 Networks on Monday announced that it will acquire NGINX, which provides popular open-source software of the same name, for $670 million. The deal advances F5's aim of capitalizing on the trend toward multi-cloud deployments.
F5 plans to enhance NGINX's current offerings with F5 security solutions and will integrate F5 cloud-native technology with NGINX's software load balancing technology. This should accelerate F5's time to market of application services for containerized applications. Meanwhile, NGINX will benefit from F5's global salesforce, channel infrastructure and partner ecosystem.
The acquisition adds "the power of NGINX's open source innovation to F5's ADC leadership and enterprise reach," NGINX CEO Gus Robertson said in a statement
F5 plans to enhance NGINX's current offerings with F5 security solutions and will integrate F5 cloud-native technology with NGINX's software load balancing technology. This should accelerate F5's time to market of application services for containerized applications. Meanwhile, NGINX will benefit from F5's global salesforce, channel infrastructure and partner ecosystem.
The acquisition adds "the power of NGINX's open source innovation to F5's ADC leadership and enterprise reach," NGINX CEO Gus Robertson said in a statement
Canâ(TM)t speak to how much you care, but if you donâ(TM)t know who F5 is then you donâ(TM)t do anything with networks and this probably isnâ(TM)t relevant to you anyway.
They already do. I worked as a software engineer at F5 and the web server that delivers the BIG-IQ UI is called "webd"...which is a recompiled version of NGINX