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... the AMQP Working Group.

(Via INfoQ.)

Microsoft Press Release, Oct. 24, 2008: Microsoft Corp. today announced that it is joining the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) Working Group...

Given that the goal of AMQP is to commodities message queuing products by standardizing on a wire protocol and a programming model, and that 29 months after the original announcement (as I reported 870 days ago) of the intent to publish AMQP 1.0 within 18 months, AMQP 1.0 hasn't been finalized, I believe this move by Microsoft, a proprietary messaging product vendor, means only one thing:

1. (I'm drawing a blank. Help me, internet!)...

This much is clear, with Microsoft in, IBM will have to join. And you know what results when Microsoft and IBM collaborate!