'People's Picks' Workplace Awards Single out F5 Networks.Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is one of two daily newspapers in Seattle, Washington, United States, the other being the Seattle Times. History The P-I, Seattle's first newspaper, was founded on December 10, 1863 as the Seattle Gazette Recognize Company for Culture, Perks, and More SEATTLE -- F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : FFIV FFIV Final Fantasy Four (video game) ), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that it was voted a winner in four categories during the recently concluded People's Picks awards. Sponsored by NWjobs, the online job listing service of the Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the contest invited site visitors to vote on the best employers in the Puget Sound Puget Sound (py  `jĕt), arm of the Pacific Ocean, NW Wash., connected with the Pacific by Juan de Fuca Strait, entered through the Admiralty Inlet and extending in two arms c. area, in more than 20 unique categories. F5 Networks was selected as one of the region's top companies in four categories: Best large corporation, Best view, Best commute program, and Company with most unusual perks. In an article announcing the awards, F5 employees praised the company for its "great culture and career potential," and also raved about the stunning views of the Puget Sound and Mount Rainier A format for providing platform interoperability and native OS support for CD-RW and DVD+RW disks. The "MRW" or "CD-MRW" format enables files to be saved to RW disks as if they were hard disks (from any Save dialog or dragged and dropped). from offices on the Elliott Bay Elliott Bay is the body of water on which Seattle, Washington is located. A line drawn from Alki Point in the south to West Point in the north serves to mark the generally accepted division between the bay and the open sound. waterfront. The company's commute program also was a top vote getter vote getter n. Informal A candidate successful in attracting votes: a runoff between the two top vote getters. : F5 Networks offers a transportation stipend for eco-friendly commuters, including carpoolers Carpoolers is an American single-camera comedy series created by Bruce McCulloch, who also executive produces alongside Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank, David Miner, Marsh McCall, Joe Russo and Anthony Russo (formerly of Arrested Development). , and provides locker rooms with showers for those wishing to bike or jog to the office. In the aperks' category, F5 drew compliments for providing free food and beverages at its weekly aBeer Friday' gathering. "It's clear from these awards that our employees see F5 as an outstanding place to work," said Laurie Likai, F5's Director of Human Resources. "We appreciate being highlighted as one of the region's best employers, and are gratified grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. that our workforce is eager to share all the advantages F5 has to offer." As an award winner, F5 Networks is currently featured on each NWjobs People's Picks category page. (All People's Pick honorees can be found by selecting the categories found at http://marketplace.nwsource.com/job/peoplespicks/2006/.) In addition, the company will have a special winner's icon added to its job postings listed in the NWjobs database for one year. About F5 Networks F5 Networks is the global leader in Application Delivery Networking. F5 provides solutions that make applications secure, fast and available for everyone, helping organizations get the most out of their investment. By adding intelligence and manageability into the network to offload applications, F5 optimizes applications and allows them to work faster and consume fewer resources. F5's extensible architecture intelligently integrates application optimization, protects the application and the network, and delivers application reliabilityaall on one universal platform. Over 10,000 organizations and service providers worldwide trust F5 to keep their applications running. The company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington with offices worldwide. For more information, go to www.f5.com. This press release may contain forward-looking statements relating to future events or future financial performance that involve risks and uncertainties. Such statements can be identified by terminology such as "may," "will," "should," "expects," "plans," "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "predicts," "potential," or "continue" or the negative of such terms or comparable terms. These statements are only predictions and actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these statements based upon a number of factors including those identified in the Company's filings with the SEC. |
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