Riverbed shares plunge on OPNET integration woes

Doug Woodburn
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Combining two sales forces taking longer than hoped, WAN optimisation ace admits

Riverbed's share price plunged 15 per cent last night as it admitted the integration of recent $1bn (£657m) acquisition OPNET was not progressing as quickly as hoped. The big daddy of the WAN op...

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