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sidcool
I might be biased, but any acquisition by Oracle of a good company doesn't feel good to me. They didn't ruin MySql and Virtual box so there's hope.
coleca
Apiary was (is) a very slick product. Hopefully it doesn't become a licensing fiasco.
tomschlick
It will. It's the Oracle way.
sidcool
That could be a good title for a book [sarcasm intended]
win_ini
When a previous company I had previously worked at (and owned equity in) was acquired by Oracle - I described like this to a friend:

"It's like finding out your daughter got married to Kim Jong-il, you're happy for her - but you're not looking forward to family events."

bjacobel
This has to be one of the most corporate, wooden, buzzword-laden acquisition announcements I've ever read. Doesn't bode well for Apiary.

I wonder what will happen to the tools Apiary has open-sourced (the API Blueprint format and its ecosystem).

niftich
API Blueprint was an okay format that has largely lost out on a broad consensus of vendor support out to Swagger (since renamed to "OpenAPI"). RAML has undergone a similar, though less dramatic fate, and Swagger's rebranding largely seals the deal in the eyes of newcomers.

It's not unreasonable to suspect that API Blueprint will continue to live on as an open source spec with little actual community uptake, while the format may continue to be the basis of Oracle's offering.

asher_
"which creates the most comprehensive API Integration Cloud"

What does this mean?

jld
Congrats to the founders, early employees and to the VCs!

Condolences to the rest of the employees as well as customers.