So lately more and more companies have been trying to get into the bot market

That's a great thing, shows it's a growing market!

So, let's have a look at the competition

Shape, incapsula, shieldsquare

and the new ones perimeterx and akamai

Let's start with perimeterx

Jesus

They raised money

jesus

Someone actually took their money and put into that company

Without even looking at the technology or asking the question if the world really needed another shieldsquare

Including javascript tags on pages comes with a huge amount of problems

My grandother knows that the solution is not fit for enterprise

and that integration and blocking will be extreamly complicated

and she is a .net coder

educated by microsoft

so we can pretty much discount those two

jesus

Get some type of relevant knowledge before you start a company

They will spend years before understanding the problem

Just like shape did. Polymorphism, what a bunch of crap

Like tools can't run in the browser

That eliminates the whole concept

No, let's be serious, let's talk about Akamai. That is a serious competitor entering the market.

They own half the internet and will have a huge amount of existing customer relationships

Botmanager, they have developed that by themselves

Like they learned nothing

from the ddos product

And most other cutting edge stuff they've tried to develop

jesus

after failing to work with shape

They are a gigant company and slow

In a developing market you need to be nimble and ready to adapt

But sure enough they will get customers solving the more trivial problem of internet automatons

And the rest?

The market will be bigger after their marketing have done their job.

So plenty for the serious players solving the real problems.

They will do like they normally do and try to aquire the market leader in three years time.

Anyone else in bot protection

Well, i don't know but incapslua/imperva and cloudflare do half assed attempts at stopping the easy stuff

But they are really more interrested in the more general internet security area

so no help really if you have a bot problem

They couldn't separate r2d2 from google bot if you ask me

The future looks bright

If you are the only one with true understanding of the problem