RabbitMQ acquired by SpringSource/VMWare

Erlang-based RabbitMQ was acquired today by SpringSource, which is owned by VMWare. Congrats to Alexis and the team. As SpringSource provides commercial support for ActiveMQ it’s obviously a perfect fit, and it gives commercial players who want to try out Erlang no excuses with regard to support – RabbitMQ was already faster (from my experience), so there were no other excuses left.

There are a number of ways VMWare could use Rabbit on the server side, so it’s a good fit there as well.

Additionally, Redis is at VMWare, and it’s interesting that two of the ‘hottest’ queueing/caching infrastructure technologies are now in the same “home”, or at least neighbors. Redis has been adding a number of pub/sub features in the latest release and has the freedom to not be bound to silly working-group hydras like the AMQP spec. Perhaps RabbitMQ will be able to broaden the offering because they’re inside a bigger entity and not as defined as simply an AMQP provider.