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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/ Network Operator https://decisioninsights.ai/term/network-operator/ Components https://decisioninsights.ai/term/components/ 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 HTTP Server, Apache FtpServer, Apache Traffic Server, Apache HttpComponents, Apache HttpComponents Core, Apache Commons HttpClient, Apache Portable Runtime, Apache CXF Related organizations powerdns, VeriSign, ipoque - a Rohde & Schwarz, ngrok, Belden, Chelsio, Link11, HAProxy Technologies