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Google To Buy Apigee For $625 Million To Expand Enterprise (bloomberg.com)
An anonymous reader shares a Bloomberg report:Google is buying software development toolmaker Apigee for $625 million, the latest move by the search giant to bulk up its cloud-based offerings for businesses. Alphabet Inc.'s Google has agreed to pay $17.40 a share in cash, San Jose, California-based Apigee said in a statement Thursday. That's a 6.5 percent premium to Apigee's closing price Wednesday. The companies expect the deal to be completed by the end of the year. Apigee sells a platform that aids companies in managing their APIs, which are programming tools that help developers build software that talks to each other and shares information without revealing the underlying code. APIs have become an integral part of cloud software development, allowing one application to pull data and use services from multiple other programs. "The addition of Apigee's API solutions to Google cloud will accelerate our customers' move to supporting their businesses with high quality digital interactions" Diane Greene, senior vice president of Google's cloud business, said in a blog post, referring to application program interface products.
These APIs things sound really useful. Where can I go to learn more about them, and the Cloud?
Might be handy when they change APIs for Android so that Oracle can suck it.
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The last time someone tried porting an Idthesda game to the browser, the result was a DMCA takedown.
What could Google possibly need with Comandeer Keen? Are they working on next generation google doodles?
They wrote and/or published a lot of platformer games in the early 1990s.
I was quite fond of Crystal Caves myself.
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>Apigee What a name. The guy who came up with it must've been seriously alternatively gifted
...this little Apigee stayed at home.
This little Apigee had roast-beef, and this little Apigee had none.
And THIS little Apigee got bought by Google and went wee! wee! wee! wee! all the way to the bank.
I wish I had mod points but I don't.
Please accept this humble smiley face instead: :)
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
One stayed at home. One had roast beef, and another had none. But this one's on the market.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Don't feel too bad about it. Apigee offer a class of software typically described as an API Gateway or API Management. If you're sharing soap or restful APIs over the internet then it's a great way to help people discover them and to manage, control, throttle, track, report and also just build APIs.
Competitors include Mashery (now owned by Tibco), Akana (I like the name), IBM (holy shit it's shit), Oracle (who gives a fuck what it's like, no cunt can afford the licences) and about 60 others that have no real share of the market.
Mulesoft is the other interesting option, as they conflate API management with messaging so you get a hybrid API manager ESB out of the box.
Disclosure: My employer has a commercial relationship with one or more of the above. Well, 'more'. Most. Maybe all. Just not in the API space.
Wasn't that ApOgee software?
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'