Fake opps in the pipeline
Low morale
Increased workload to cover those that got laid off
AppD Cloud is a joke - even open source is better
The leaders have hardware but no software sales experience
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@1xdi+1kV2MFle Okay, I may be wrong. But If AppD wasn't good I doubt it will grow from a start-up to $3.5 Billion in 6 years.
@1frt+1kV2MFle If AppD had smart employees why was the product always bad and never even close to best in breed?
Cisco laid off many smart people from AppD after initial acquisition. they were some of the smartest. Cisco hardly know how to handle any product above Layer 3. it was a mistake and left it for long before starting to integrate. by that time we lost the market and leaders in AppD. Now using marketing buzz words like FSO, observability bla bla but nothing is helping to make enough monies. TE on other side is a good product but we don\t have a vision to monetize it in a proper way. making it a part of FSO doesn\t hhelp to sell the product. I recently heard predictive internet product from Cisco which is based on TE. Jesus....we build all these fancy products then later we are searching for the market. Same with Tetration.....our competitors are build products to solve customer problems but we don't have money and resources to help customer..When will JP or LC like exec will be accountable ?
If you think AppD is bad, spend some time in TE - absolutely mess of people who can't sell as we've seen with the H1 results.
Doesn't helo when they have moved all their Cisco hombres into leadership position with no clue on running SaaS companies. Laid of a ton of good people since they done fit within the Cisco culture.. Let's wait and see what the rest of the FY brings us.
It sucked even before acquisition. But no good companies want us to buy them anymore so we take what we can get.
I would admit that Cisco direction to make APPD the centerpiece of FSO is a huge mistake ,its a turkey that no one wants and the only reason why its even looked at is that you can pair with TE. We should junk it and either buy a good application monitoring product or learn how to integrate better. AppD cloud is a joke, no one will buy it and will cause more LR pain.