User talk:Wikidude101

Please do not add commercial links or links to your own private websites to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links to the encyclopedia. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. - Lucky 6.9 00:09, 12 September 2006 (UTC) How was the recent addition different from the entery at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverbed. Both inform readers on what the company does.

Good question. Because the article in question is presented as an encyclopedia article and not an advertisement. It's also an extremely notable company. Small companies and businesses generally aren't eligible for inclusion and "spam" is speedily deleted. See What Wikipedia is not to learn more. - Lucky 6.9 00:24, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

I assume you know them to be 'extremely notable' because of articles published by Wall Street Journal and Infoworld as mentioned on the highly sales-oriented Wikipedia entry? Do you know about what technology they are using? Do you know how that technology compares with the technology provided by Lightning Bolt Solutions? They are loaded on VC funding and have hired people who have connection with Wall Street Journal and Infoworld. The internet is supposed to be a medium that flattens the world by giving voices to small people and small companies who do not have the resources to be heard. It levels the playing field. Is Wikipedia going to be a voice for Big business as rest of the media like Fox news. Lightning Bolt Solutions without the resources of Riverbed was founded on the same year as Riverbed (2002) but it is already profitable while Riverbed is still in the red. The article that I had published was informative and without being sales oriented like the one for Riverbed.