Rabbit Technologies, a spin out of LShift Ltd. and Cohesive FT, has just been acquired by SpringSource, a division of VMWare. Rabbit Technologies is the company behind RabbitMQ, a high-performance open-source enterprise messaging system based on the AMPQ protocol.
For me, the most interesting thing about this acquisition is the fact that RabbitMQ is an Erlang-based product. This shows once again that Erlang is not an esoteric language anymore, that even large companies are not afraid of using it. This is another great success story for Erlang! And I wish the Rabbit Technologies team the best for the upcoming years.
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Yes, I worked on RabbitMQ a couple of years ago at LShift Ltd., initially knowing of Erlang only what you had showed us at a previous MSlug meeting.
What (possibly) made it be used is that:
1/ AMQP is a protocol designed by big companies,
2/ RabbitMQ is a good portable implementation of AMQP,
3/ The devs were very reactive.
I'm glad of this acquisition, and hurra for good software made with good languages \o/
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