F5 buys NGINX

F5 acquires NGINX to integrate NetOps and DevOps and provide clients with consistent application services in all environments. The amount of the transaction is estimated at approximately $ 670 million.

The development team, including Igor Sysoev and Maxim Konovalov, will continue to develop NGINX already as part of F5.

The F5 company expects to embed its safety practices into the Nginx server, and also use it in its cloud products. According to Francois Loko-Don, CEO of F5, the merger will allow the company's customers to significantly accelerate the development of containerized applications, and Nginx, in turn, will receive even greater opportunities in big business.
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Representatives of both companies separately noted that one of the main conditions, without which the transaction would not have taken place, was the preservation of Nginx openness.

With today's news, our vision and mission do not change. We are still helping customers build distributed application architectures. We are still creating a platform that optimizes inbound / outbound traffic and the API. And we still help companies in their transition to microservices. What changes is our path. F5 shares our mission, vision and values. But they bring a huge amount of additional resources and additional technologies.

Make no mistake: F5 is committed to supporting the NGINX brand and open source technology. Without this commitment, the transaction would not take place with any of the parties.

Looking ahead, I am pleased with the possibility of combining the two relevant market leaders. We have additional strengths. F5 is a leader in application infrastructure for networks and security groups. NGINX is a leader in application infrastructure for DevOps developers and teams built on our open source kernel. Our solutions for web servers and application servers, microservices, and API management complement F5 solutions for application management, application security, and infrastructure. Even in the case of application delivery controllers (ADCs), where there is some overlap, NGINX has created a lightweight version only for software that complements the options of the cloud, virtual and physical F5 devices.

Gus Robertson, NGINX

The acquisition of F5 NGINX strengthens our growth path by accelerating our software and transforming several clouds. By combining world-class F5 applications for application security and rich application services to increase productivity, accessibility, and management with leading NGINX application delivery and API management solutions, unsurpassed reputation and brand awareness in the DevOps community, and an extensive open source user base With the code, we bridge the gap between NetOps and DevOps using consistent application services in a multi-user enterprise environment.

François Locoh-Donou, F5



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