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Alcatel-Lucent buys ProgrammableWeb
Stuart Corner
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 12:29
Alcatel-Lucent has taken another major step in its strategy to help its major customers - telcos - add value by incorporating content and applications from third parties into their networks: it has acquired ProgrammableWeb, billed as "the universal source for Web application programming interfaces."
Alcatel-Lucent says the acquisition "will help bring together an ecosystem of service providers, enterprises, and developers to drive the creation of unique applications today and in the new world of broadband mobile through LTE'¦For Alcatel-Lucent this acquisition provides an important new channel to partner with the Web developer community."
It added: "This move advances Alcatel-Lucent's Application Enablement strategy, which is focused on combining the trusted and secure network capabilities of service providers with the speed and creativity of the Web to provide a richer end-user experience."
The acquisition is the third initiative in a journey the company started in December 2009 when it announced its 'Open API Service' and 'Application Exposure Suite'. These were billed as "a host of capabilities to help service providers open their networks to application developers and content providers in a secure and controlled way to speed the creation of innovative Web 2.0 services for consumers and enterprises."
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