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Red Hat (News - Alert), a global provider of open source solutions, announced its support for the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), an open, unencumbered integration protocol for business messaging.

As a founding member of the AMQP working group, Red Hat has already made a lot of contributions to the protocol. Since its inception, its main role was in the development and editing of the AMQP specification.

According to Red Hat, the AMQP standard extends interoperability within and beyond the enterprise. The company thinks that AMQP is an important infrastructure component for next generation solutions that require integration to extend beyond the traditional enterprise boundaries.

“The ratification of AMQP as a standard, open protocol for message-based communication is a major milestone for customers and information technology as a whole,” said Craig Muzilla, vice president and general manager of Middleware Business at Red Hat.

The AMQP working group held in New York featured a presentation from Red Hat customer Deutsche Borse Group. Eurex, the derivatives exchange of Deutsche Borse, has deployed Red Hat Enterprise MRG Messaging as the integration fabric for its AMQP-based risk system.

“Deutsche Borse's use of AMQP is an illustration of the power of the protocol,” said Carl Trieloff, technical director at Red Hat and longtime AMQP working group contributor, in a statement. “Now, as a part of the OASIS standards initiative, we expect the appeal of AMQP-based messaging solutions to truly grow.”

“It highlights the benefits of an open messaging protocol and the business benefits that are derived from fostering interconnectivity, seamlessly connecting Deutsche Borse with more than 100 different clearing members in what has proven to be an award-winning solution,” Trieloff added.

Recently, Red Hat announced its plans to acquire Gluster, a provider of open source storage, for around $136 million in cash. The deal will allow Red Hat to break into the software-based storage market.