I first heard about AMQP (the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol) back in early 2005 when John Davies first announced its existence at the Web Services on Wall Street Conference. I loved the concept of an open standard for messaging middleware and was excited by the potential for wire-level interoperability for enterprise messaging.
I’ve been tracking the progress of AMQP ever since. The formation of the AMQP.org working group in summer 2006 was another great milestone. Today AMQP.org consists of a broad group of software vendors and end-users: Cisco Systems, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Börse Systems, Envoy Technologies, Inc., Goldman Sachs, IONA Technologies PLC, iMatix Corporation sprl., JPMorgan Chase Bank Inc. N.A, Novell, Rabbit Technologies Ltd., Red Hat, Inc., TWIST Process Innovations Ltd, WS02, Inc. and 29West Inc. Last
Last Friday, Microsoft joined the party by becoming a member of AMQP.org. You can get more information from the press release and Sam Ramji’s blog posting.
I’m excited. More on this to come…
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