Comments on: Are Open APIs Too Open for Big Business? http://www.layer7tech.com/blogs/index.php/are-open-apis-too-open-for-big-business/ API Management | SOA Governance | Cloud Integration Fri, 03 May 2013 15:26:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mehdi http://www.layer7tech.com/blogs/index.php/are-open-apis-too-open-for-big-business/#comment-9492 Mehdi Fri, 28 Dec 2012 20:53:36 +0000 http://www.layer7tech.com/blogs/?p=2515#comment-9492 True question thank you for this feedback from the field. We have the same feeling talking about open APIs to big companies too. These 2 articles we've written may complete yours. This one is "Too Big To Fail APIs" and talks about the fact that very open and successful API, feel now they are too much open and can close because they are now mainstream and try to abruptly monetize. http://api500.com/post/27360838922/apis-too-big-to-fail Sometimes the only business model of opening is.... closing! The second one is about API neutrality and how it is hard to stay open and neutral when you are a big company with a big 3rd party ecosystem http://api500.com/post/31465739810/what-is-api-neutrality True question thank you for this feedback from the field. We have the same feeling talking about open APIs to big companies too. These 2 articles we’ve written may complete yours.

This one is “Too Big To Fail APIs” and talks about the fact that very open and successful API, feel now they are too much open and can close because they are now mainstream and try to abruptly monetize.
http://api500.com/post/27360838922/apis-too-big-to-fail
Sometimes the only business model of opening is…. closing!

The second one is about API neutrality and how it is hard to stay open and neutral when you are a big company with a big 3rd party ecosystem
http://api500.com/post/31465739810/what-is-api-neutrality

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