API/SDK for network appliances

I feel so sad that my vision for creating an API/SDK for our network appliances has been implemented by our competitor. I have been proposing this for more than a year now, going as far as to create a draft architecture for our network appliances-- but it fell on deaf ears. Juniper has implemented it on their products, and I honestly envy them because I know that this will make them sell like pancakes to big corporations. I wish them the best of luck.