Decision to join AMQP Working Group based on commitment to openness,
interoperability and providing customer choice.
REDMOND, Wash., Oct. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microsoft Corp. today
announced that it is joining the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)
Working Group, an organization focused on the development of the AMQP
specification. Microsoft is joining the AMQP Working Group at the request
of its members, including several of Microsoft's customers in the financial
services industry, in order to support the development of an open industry
standard for ubiquitous messaging.
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AMQP is a specification for platform-neutral, open standards-based
business messaging. The primary goal of AMQP is to enable the
communications necessary for business processes. AMQP Working Group members
are collaborating on specifications for messaging infrastructure that
provide businesses with a simple and more powerful way of connecting
messaging-dependent applications both within and between firms. By joining
the AMQP Working Group, Microsoft is seeking to contribute toward the
development of such solutions and to enable greater customer choice in the
marketplace.
"Customers are seeking scalable solutions with lower costs that will
allow messaging within the enterprise and outside the corporate
infrastructure," said Sam Ramji, senior director of platform strategy at
Microsoft. "By joining the AMQP Working Group, Microsoft is aiming to
contribute to the development of the specification in ways that will best
promote interoperability for existing market implementations and provide
customers with increased choice."
Message-based transports with security and transactional integrity are
a vital infrastructure component throughout institutions. As Microsoft
continues to provide vertical industry solutions, AMQP will provide an
alternative to current messaging options. The AMQP specification and
related implementations may provide greater interoperability for a number
of vertical scenarios in addition to financial services, insurance and
healthcare, among others.
AMQP Working Group members embraced the news of Microsoft's decision to
join.
"The AMQP Working Group is doing great work to facilitate open and
interoperable standards for messaging infrastructure across platforms,"
said Adrian Kunzle, head of Engineering and Architecture at J.P. Morgan.
"We welcome Microsoft's commitment as another step toward AMQP becoming the
preferred connectivity for business messaging on the Internet."
"Cisco has long been a proponent of open industry standards that
benefit our customers," said Pranta Das, technical leader for Cisco Systems
Inc. and member of the AMQP Working Group. "We are pleased to welcome
Microsoft to the AMQP Working Group as we continue to develop open
specifications for messaging."
Paul Fremantle, chief technology officer of WSO2 Inc., another working
group participant, noted: "We welcome Microsoft's commitment to openness
and the AMQP messaging specification. Their participation will be valuable
to our efforts to support the development of interoperability solutions
across heterogeneous IT environments."
Members of the AMQP Working Group are Cisco, Credit Suisse, Deutsche
Boerse Systems, Envoy Technologies Inc., The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.,
iMatix Corporation, IONA Technologies, J.P. Morgan, Novell, Rabbit
Technologies Ltd., Red Hat Inc., TWIST Process Innovations Ltd., WSO2 and
29West Inc.
More information about Microsoft's interoperability efforts can be
found at http://www.microsoft.com/interop.
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is the worldwide leader in
software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize
their full potential.
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