In a statement titled " Standing Firm in Support of the People of Ukraine ," F5 CEO François Locoh-Donou said the company had suspended all sales in Russia and put customers The support case goes elsewhere.
At the same time, Russia's network access to F5 has been cancelled, and contributions to the NGINX open source project in Russia have been stopped. "This work will continue elsewhere globally. There is no code in Russia, either commercial or open source. We remain committed to developing NGINX and its community, as well as protecting the welfare of our employees in Russia."
At present, F5's official Twitter has also pinned the statement to the top.
Like most of the global community, we have witnessed the intensification of the war in Ukraine with shock, grief and anger. Our hearts go out to those facing the invasion of their homeland, separation from loved ones, and displacement from the lands they love. As governments around the world decide how to respond to this act of aggression, those of us in business must view the Ukraine war as not just a business issue, but a moral imperative.
We at F5 are a firm supporter of the Ukrainian people and their rights as a sovereign democracy. Turning our emotions into determination, we are motivated to act. Since the initial attack, we have closely monitored every part of our business for ways to provide a supportive response.
Nginx is a lightweight Web server/reverse proxy server and email (IMAP/POP3) proxy server, developed by Russian programmer Igor Sysoev, originally for Russia's large portal and search engine Rambler (Russia). Text: Рамблер) used. Today, NGINX is the most widely used web server in the world .
Igor officially released NGINX to the public on October 4, 2004 and made it open source. In 2011, Igor founded NGINX with co-founders Maxim Konovalov and Andrew Alexeev to begin commercializing services around NGINX. In 2019, F5 announced the acquisition of NGINX for $670 million. Earlier this year, Igor announced his departure from F5.