Microsoft joining Apache Qpid and the AMQP working group
November 7th, 2008 | Published in AMQP, Open Source, Qpid | Add to del.icio.us
I guess by now many have heard that Microsoft is joining the Apache Qpid project and the AMQP Working Group. Sam Ramji mentioned this during his key note at the Apache Con US 2008. This is indeed great news for both the AMQP working group as well as the Apache Qpid community.
One of the engineers from Microsoft Anandeep Pannu, has written very excitedly about participating in Qpid.
In July Sam Ramji announced a sponsorship for the Apache Software Foundation. It kind of signaled about their intent to get their feet wet with playing an active role in open source. It seems that most large vendors have realized the importance of participating and promoting open source on one hand and also harnessing the power of open source on the other hand. IBM for instance played this strategy very well over the last decade or so. This is very good PR for the Qpid project and hopefully attract more participants and end users to the project. Definitely looking forward to working them in Qpid and the AMQP working group.