Microsoft Joins Messaging Interoperability Group

By Mike Sachoff
Staff Writer
Article Date: 2008-11-06

Microsoft has announced that it is joining a group focused on enterprise messaging in order to further interoperability among systems.

The organization Microsoft is joining is the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) Working Group, focused on the development of the AMQP specification. Microsoft said it is joining AMQP Working Group at the request of its members, including several of its customers in the financial services industry and hope to support the development of an open industry standard for ubiquitous messaging.

AMQP is a specification platform-neutral, open standards- based business messaging. The main goal of AMQP is to enable the communications necessary for business processes. AMQP members are collaborating on specifications for messaging infrastructure that provide businesses with a simple and more effective way of connecting messaging-dependent applications both within and between firms.

"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 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 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."

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