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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.

Cloud https://decisioninsights.ai/term/cloud/ Configuration Management https://decisioninsights.ai/term/configuration-management/ Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment https://decisioninsights.ai/term/continuous-integration-and-continuous-deployment-cicd/ 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 NOX, POX, Apache NuttX, openSUSE, Linux Mint, n8n, Clear Linux, Solus Related organizations Fedora Project, VoidLinux, Alpine Linux, Arch Linux, OwOCloud, Quest Software, RackN, Red Hat