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Bryan_90908
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May 16, 2011

F5 vs Open Source?

Greetings group,   I’ve been tasked with comparing the use of open source load balancing software server solutions against commercially available off the shelf hardware. We are currently using F5...
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The_Bhattman
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Jun 03, 2011
Hi Brian,

 

There is an excellent article that was written by F5s Lori MacVittie.

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/macvittie/archive/2009/04/17/dear-slashdot-you-get-what-you-pay-for.aspx

 

 

This topic generated interesting conversations in the community.

 

 

However, ultimately it comes down to 2 important questions (minus the cost)

 

1) How much features you need and not what you want.

 

2) Can your existing support organization support it (Development, Deployment and Support).

 

 

I hope this helps,

 

Bhattman