Curious to know what Riverbed thinks of this view, I shot off an email. Will Riverbed be releasing a software-only version of its wares anytime soon?
Here's the reply from Riverbed's VP of product marketing, Alan Saldich:
"With over 1000 customers, Riverbed has more experience with the WDS market than any other vendor. There is no doubt that the overwhelming percentage of enterprise customers want an appliance in the branch, not a Windows server-based product -- the whole point of WDS appliances for many customers is to eliminate servers from branch offices, so replacing a server with another server is not appealing. Branch offices have little to no IT support, which means that a server-based solution is much more expensive and harder to manage in the long run. In addition to the customer complexity, building a software-based solution (to go on commodity servers) introduces a complex array of hardware, disk, driver, OS and other variables which makes it harder for the customer and harder for the vendor.
I'll take that as a "no," Alan.
Mary Jander, Site Editor, Byte and Switch
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