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What we add

Topic graph

A wire service tags a release with a category, once. It doesn't maintain a durable graph over time. We connect them to a topic graph an agent can query.

Cybersecurity https://decisioninsights.ai/term/cybersecurity/ Application https://decisioninsights.ai/term/application/ Enterprise https://decisioninsights.ai/term/enterprise/ and 4 more

Counted facts

A protocol or open source project keeps no vendor list and publishes no figures of its own to check this against. This counts how it actually shows up across the graph -- articles that name it, the organizations named alongside it in those articles, similar projects, and organizations whose topic tags overlap with its own -- computed, not curated.

Related projects Apache log4php, Apache log4net, Apache log4cxx, Apache Commons Logging, Apache Chainsaw, Apache Johnzon, Apache OpenJPA, Apache JAMES Related organizations Kong Inc, Loggly Inc., Salt Security, STIX, Activepieces, AMIAPISO, TeejLab, KrakenD