I have been called all afternoon about the rumor that Juniper is buying a rival Riverbed. While this comes out as a shocking even,t it is really not hard to believe as the Juniper product is not that good. But is it true or just a rumor? If true I am really surprised if this does not turn into a bidding war between Cisco and Juniper if someone really wants to take over the company. Chambers could use some of those billions he has off shore that I am sure is just waiting to be invested into more India projects. So if the rumor is true it will be a shame as the staff at Riverbed has done a good job and will just be swallowed up by a bigger company. If you look at the way Juniper and Riverbed have managed their wan acceleration products it is a wonder they have not tried to buy Riverbed before now.
If Juniper does buy Riverbed and the rumors are true, they will have one up on Cisco again in a space where Cisco is a number three now. Remember we did not start the rumor as you can see below just reporting on it.
http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2009/10/09/riverbed-rallies-on-rumors-of-juniper-bid/
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=akDdgyk.aHwQ
Larry Chaffin Ph.D is the Chief Executive Officer/Chairman and founder of Pluto Networks, a Consulting and VAR partner specializing in WAN Acceleration, VoIP, WLAN, Telepresence and Security and a Riverbed reseller. Pluto Networks specializes in the needs of small, large and enterprise companies by always giving them a great ROI on the products they sell. Pluto Networks has a presence in 23 countries around the world enabling all of its consultants to be virtual. Larry was a Judge at Interop for the Best of Interop Awards for 2009 and is looking forward to the 2010 awards in Las Vegas.
Larry has also co-authored all of the books listed below:
Managing Cisco Secure Networks, Skype Me, Practical VOIP Security, Configuring Check Point NGX VPN-1/Firewall-1,Configuring Juniper Networks NetScreen & SSG Firewalls,Essential Computer Security: Everyone's Guide to Email, Internet, and Wireless Security, How to Cheat at Microsoft Vista Administration, Microsoft Vista for IT Security Professionals, Asterisk Hacking, 2008 VoIP and Video Conferencing, Infosecurity 2008 Threat Analysis and author of Building a VOIP Network with Nortel's MS5100, along with co-authoring/ghost writing eleven other technology books for VIOP, WLAN, security and optical technologies. Larry is currently working on a follow up to Building a VoIP network with Nortel's MCS 5100 Book as well as new books on Cisco Telepresence Networks, Practical VoIP case studies and WAN Acceleration with Riverbed.
Larry also has more than 29 vendor certifications and has been working on many others. Larry has been a principal architect around the world in 22 countries for many Fortune 100 companies designing VoIP, security, wireless and optical networks. He has expanded over time also to include application acceleration. Larry is working with worldwide company now out of Asia as a Special Assistant to the CEO and CIO as they go through organizational and network changes, helping them with strategic advice from his years or experience. Pluto Networks is a channel partner of Cisco, ProCurve, LifeSize, Riverbed, Call Copy, Fastsoft and Symantec.
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This would not be good for Riverbed customers
If history repeats itself, just like Peribit and Netscreen, the innovation and new features will slow...and competition will catch up.
I would agree
I would say that it is just not Juniper who has had issue after buying a company, Cisco has done the same thing. But when a company gets purchased by a larger company is loses value and steam with sales and technology. It would have been better if HP buys Riverbed and keeps it a separate company, this way things would keep rolling.
Something like what 3Com has done with Tippingpoint
Something like what 3Com has done with Tippingpoint?? It owns Tippingpoint, but Tippingpoint is still operating as separate company. I might be incorrect, in which case feel free to correct me.
tipping point
yes .. 3com and tipping point .. or emc and vmware. the sad thing is that neither tipping point nor vmware have benefited from their parent firms (in terms of sales / marketing help) but it is true that neither firm was ruined and both did/are doing well. the only issue with hp or jnpr buying riverbed is that they want it to be a critical part of thier solution and vision ... unlike 3com and emc which did not necessarily need those firms as part of their overall vision ...
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