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5th February 2009 - Link Blog

Apache Qpid. A new open source AMQP message queue with implementations in C++ and Java, developed by engineers from Red Hat, IONA and JP Morgan Chase. Anyone tried this yet? Looks pretty good on paper.

Posted 5th February 2009 at 11:01 pm

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