Talk:F5, Inc.

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Advertising[edit]

It seems to me that this F5 article reads rather like an advert for the company.

GregHarewood 15:50, 6 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the passages with the most blatant advertising and did a bit of a reorganization. --Amir E. Aharoni 08:51, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It does read like an advert, but it lacks the most basic info: Where did the phrase "F5" come from? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.191.48.115 (talk) 09:23, 9 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It says it in the Corporate history section: F5 is a type of a tornado. --Amir E. Aharoni 10:05, 9 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Added to the name section from F5's official brand guidelines information about the name:

   The story behind our name
   F5, originally named F5 Labs and then known as
   F5 Networks, was founded in 1996. The name F5 is
   taken from the Fujita scale of ratings for tornado intensity,
   where F5 is the most intense. Our F5 red ball glows
   brightly from our hardware that’s housed in data centers
   across the globe.
   ^[1]  (page 3)

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Justinshattuck (talk • contribs) 06:10, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

There are links in the text to F5's site. Does that need to go? StripeyBadger (talk) 15:46, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I removed excessive links to BIG-IP.

Having one link to the company homepage is OK. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 14:04, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I added new information. FirePass and Wanjet will run as modules under version 9.4.0. If you feel like verifying this call marketing. I do not want to talk to them. I work for F5 so I might have some bias but I think that the article compared to past articles reads less like an advert and has more accurate info now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.202.47.123 (talk) 17:41, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Actually it seems to me that the F5 article reads like an advert for the competition without all of the facts. If the article is about F5, then it should focus on facts about F5. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.85.211.196 (talk) 21:31, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've done a fairly major overhaul of the article to start to add some citations and update product information which was getting out of date. Gavint0 (talk) 16:54, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think it is out of date again. That is why I like citing mostly archived pages and using past tense! W Nowicki (talk) 23:04, 16 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Horrible company description[edit]

Can somebody re-write this so one can tell what the company actually does besides "optimize" stuff? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.250.61.95 (talk) 15:38, 29 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Include new offerings[edit]

Much has changed with F5 Networks over the years and should be reflected. They (f5 / f5 silverline) just won an award that got announced at RSA last week about their web application firewall and cloud waf offering. Their acquisition of defense.net has lead to Silverline, albeit income is not disclosed but has become a big project within their organization. ^[2]

--Justin Shattuck (talk) 06:10, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Merge Ticketbleed to Big-IP section[edit]

Ticketbleed needs to be merge to the F5 Networks BIG-IP section of this article. Not notable enough after one day of discovery to be a whole article.— አቤል ዳዊት^?(Janweh64) (talk) 15:12, 9 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes indeed, or just delete it, not much to merge except maybe one sentence. Also see an article today W Nowicki (talk) 18:40, 9 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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NGINX Aquistion[edit]

NGINX (open source leader in application delivery) for US$670 million on March 11, 2019[24]

The description "open source leader in application delivery" seems out of type with its peers, and quite opinionated. Looks like it was from the F5 press release.

KJ4IPS (talk) 21:11, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I rewrote the above to "web server and application server vendor" as well as editing the entry to reflect NGINX, Inc, and not NGINX (the software).

There is no page for NGINX, inc. at this time, so it currently links to NGINX. Possibly a candidate for a redirect.

KJ4IPS (talk) 21:17, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The other acquisitions only list date by year, should this be reduced to the year?

KJ4IPS (talk) 21:20, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Trending?[edit]

Anyone know why this page is constantly trending? Nswix (talk) 01:00, 15 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Employees section is out of date[edit]

Only Gilad Bracha is currently still with F5 (he's a Technical Fellow) - the other 3 mentioned are no longer there Zmolek (talk) 19:51, 10 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttps://www.f5.com/pdf/f5/brand-guidelines.pdf

[2] ttp://www.scmagazine.com/sc-awards-2016/section/5433/?publishDate=False&timestamp=635852806671307920

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