Open source messaging platform

09/02/2005 18:09 | Categories: General, News | 2 Comments 

Outside the needs for a free and powerful web-platform and a free operating system, there are other things which are badly needed: a free messaging platform modelled after things like Tibco/Rendezvous or IBM's MQSeries.

I doubt that a project like this will get any attention because it's not interesting to all those so-called "geeks" that are happy playing with their Apache setup in their linux rig but it could help to save millions of dollars in licenses once it reaches a usable status.

My main concern at the moment is the license (the crap article from eWeek doesn't say much) but at least companies like RedHat, SuSE, some important banks and even Wall Street are behind the initiative so this could end up being something good...


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  1. Ivan 11/02/2005 06:38 | JMS and JXTA?

    Well, not sure, but I thought that JMS is what are you looking for, but well, I can said that WebSphere sucks ;)

  2. oscar 11/02/2005 15:28 | JMS

    JMS is only a java-centric solution, meaning that it only works with Java. Apparently this solution is going to have bindings/libraries for all platforms so that's always an added value specially when you need to interconnect old non-java legacy apps.

    And about JXTA, isn't that a library for P2P messaging in Java?

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