Pros
- Solid core product for web security - Fairly decent channel coverage - Heavily embedded in the Federal space - Most colleagues are nice, professional, well adjusted individuals - Some honorable initiatives that generated a lot of goodwill (K9 for home use etc) - Nice office, nice location - Free soda?
Cons
- Solid core product that got fanagled into doing too many things at one time - Great vision for ADN which managed to fall flat on its face due to horrible positioning, lousy execution and underestimating the gap that exists between the security buyer and the network infra buyer - Too many acquisitions, then doing nothing with them (where's the Shaper integration with SG?) - Lost focus on security in the face of increased, serious competition (PA Networks etc) - 2 steps behind Riverbed, and still 2 steps behind, 5 years later - Losing a sales organization with plenty of tenure, both inside and outside, all in more or less a single swoop, whilst keeping on useless mouthpieces at the top on for years at a time