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Microsoft joins messaging interoperability working group


By David Worthington
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October 24, 2008 —  Microsoft announced today that it is joining an industry working group to develop an enterprise messaging specification that proponents believe will further interoperability among heterogeneous systems.

Microsoft has accepted an invitation to join the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) working group, a cooperative of companies working to develop a specification to improve interoperability for messaging solutions. The existing members are Cisco, iMatix, Novell, RabbitMQ, Red Hat and WSO2.

There are already several existing open-source implementations of AMQP, including Apache QPID, OpenAMQ and RabbitMQ. In addition, Red Hat has been adding native AMQP support into its Linux platform and server products.

Microsoft will participate in the development of the specification and has a strong interest in working toward interoperability in enterprise messaging, wrote Sam Ramji, senior director of platform strategy at Microsoft, in a blog post. However, the company has made no guarantees that it will implement AMQP in its products.

“It's too early to predict what the tangible results will be or, practically speaking, what the implications are. In joining the working group, Microsoft isn't making product or road-map commitments, just taking a more active role in an increasingly important standard,” said RedMonk analyst Stephen O’Grady.

Should Microsoft implement AMQP in its products, there will be tangible benefits, according to Bryan Che, Red Hat’s product manager for Enterprise MRG. Che wrote in his blog, “Between Linux and Windows, AMQP will become a standard messaging facility on the vast majority of operating systems and server platforms. It will offer a new level of interoperability between Linux and Windows using open standards and open-source software.”

A solid Windows implementation will broaden the appeal of AMQP, said WSO2 CTO Paul Fremantle. He noted that Microsoft would not have backed AMQP unless it strongly believed that it has technical merit, and that in combination with Cisco and Red Hat customers, a huge proportion of the world’s computing infrastructure would be potentially covered.

Microsoft will abide by the working group’s requirement for a royalty-free patent licensing commitment and has agreed to grant royalty-free patents licenses “on specific terms to implementers of the specification,” wrote Microsoft’s Ramji. He added that its work would be consistent with the interoperability principles that the company outlined in July.

In July, Microsoft vowed to ensure open connections, promote data portability, enhance support for industry standards, and more openly engage its customers and the industry, including open-source communities.

“Support for an open standard like AMQP is consistent with Microsoft’s demonstrated commitment for other integration standards, most notably the Web Services family of standards. It fits in well with their standards-based integration strategy for increasing their presence in the enterprise back office,” said ZapThink analyst Jason Bloomberg.




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