For governments looking for cutting edge, open source messaging solutions, the recent action by the OASIS standards consortium to approve the Advanced Message Queueing Protocol (AMQP) Version 1.0 is a major development.
The need for cutting edge, mission critical messaging options is arising in a variety of contexts: it is a key component to interoperable ‘smart grid’ frameworks, as well as ‘cloud’ solutions.
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