Microsoft Embraces AMQP Open Middleware Standard 122
AlexGr writes to tell us that Microsoft apparently has plans to embrace a little known messaging standard called AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol). Red Hat, a founding member of the AMQP working group, was very excited about the news and wrote to welcome Microsoft to the party. "Suffice it is to say that AMQP is to high-value, reliable business messaging what SMTP is to e-mail. The proprietary message oriented middleware (MOM) products on the market today like IBM's MQ or Tibco's Rendezvous fulfill the same function as AMQP. But they operate exclusively in single-vendor fashion and utterly fail to interoperate with each other. They are also — perhaps not by coincidence — burdensomely expensive. As a result their use is mostly limited to wealthy organizations such as Wall Street banks (at least the ones who are still in business) that need to exchange huge volumes of business messages very reliably and very quickly. But AMQP's supporters feel the market for such reliable messaging could be much larger if a less expensive and truly open solution became available."
Re:Which leads to the question (Score:5, Funny)
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Silly. Microsoft's is the standard implementation. All those other people are incompatible with Microsoft, not the other way around.
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Re:Embrace, something, something (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Embrace, something, something (Score:2, Funny)
No, I think their plan might be more like...
1) Embrace
2) ?
3) Profit!
If that doesn't work, Plan 'B' will probably involve throwing some chairs around while cursing.