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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by darksoul on Monday March 11, 2019 @05:25PM (#19362978)
According to the public statements, F5 is committing to maintain the current level of resources NGINX has allocated to their open source programs, to keep the same dev team involved, to keep licensing as it currently is, not change any of the repositories on Mercurial and GitHub and to keep the NGINX brand.

Which only means that NGINX will get even better over time.

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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by foobarbazetc on Monday March 11, 2019 @06:22PM (#19363465)
Every company that has ever acquired anything says this exact same thing. Then the deal closes and it’s back to bottom line numbers.
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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by notyourwork on Monday March 11, 2019 @11:42PM (#19365234)
In this case how does f5 make or lose money from Nginx?
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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by TkTech on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @02:00AM (#19365768)
I guess this[1] image from the F5 article gives an idea of where nginx fits from their perspective. F5 is a huge company (4000~ employees) that already likely has thousands of boxes running nginx. If you're going to continue using nginx as a critical piece of your business you might as well secure its future.

[1]: https://www.f5.com/content/dam/f5-com/page-assets-en/home-en...

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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by munificent on Monday March 11, 2019 @07:59PM (#19364120)
> committing to maintain the current level of resources NGINX has allocated to their open source programs

What are the contractual consequences if they don't keep that commitment? If the answer is "none", then it's not a commitment.

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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by Aeolun on Monday March 11, 2019 @07:11PM (#19363793)
I’ve seen that a lot of times. What I haven’t seen a ton of is the acquired company still existing 5 years later.
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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by rodgerd on Monday March 11, 2019 @09:23PM (#19364550)
Which is an interesting statement given that everyone I've run into associated with F5 - local reps or users - have been relentlessly hostile to "open source crap".
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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by dsl on Monday March 11, 2019 @07:47PM (#19364040)
NGINX was already paywalling bug fixes once they launched Pro.

proxy_pass for example will only resolve a hostname at the time the configuration is parsed, unless you use a convoluted variable hack. This was a serious issue requiring you to restart your fleet if a backend server changed IPs. The bug fix for this was implemented only in Pro and sold as "DNS for Service Discovery."

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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by keypusher on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @04:47AM (#19366370)
Put a load balancer between your reverse proxy and your backends. Problem solved.
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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by corebit on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @08:56AM (#19367624)
What do you think nginx was being used for?
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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by brightball on Monday March 11, 2019 @11:13PM (#19365065)
How’s Apache doing these days? Haven’t looked in a while
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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by skoskie on Monday March 11, 2019 @11:57PM (#19365302)
Nowhere near as fast with concurrent connections.
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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by jimjag on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @11:18AM (#19368969)
That is simply untrue. Apache 2.4.x w/ the Event MPM is just as fast and actually has lower latency. That FUD has long, long since been disproved.
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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by EvangelicalPig on Monday March 11, 2019 @05:27PM (#19363001)
Hopefully if it declines we can have a MariaDB type fork take it's place.
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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by beatgammit on Monday March 11, 2019 @07:09PM (#19363781)
nginy?

But yeah, hopefully the community around it is solid enough to make that a possibility. I'd really prefer to not go back to Apache...

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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by Rexxar on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @02:46PM (#19371597)
Incrementing all letters : "nginx" => "ohjoy"
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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by EvangelicalPig on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @04:56PM (#19372930)
You win
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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by dharmab on Monday March 11, 2019 @07:10PM (#19363788)
Pronounced "en-genie", with an oil lamp as the logo?
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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by kabacha on Monday March 11, 2019 @11:04PM (#19365019)
Oh boy do I have a bridge to sell to you!
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