Why OpenMAMA is the Future of Open Source | Linux Today

Why OpenMAMA is the Future of Open Source

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 31, 2011

“OpenMAMA is an effort to standardize and simplify the MAMA APIs
that have been in use since at least 2002. The basic idea behind
have an open source implementation of MAMA is to have a level-set,
a baseline implementation that is used to promote interoperability.
The financial industry, especially stock exchanges like the NYSE
are not strangers to Linux. The Big Board itself has been running
on Red Hat since at least 2008. There has also been collaboration
among financial services vendors as part of the AMPQ messaging
standard too.


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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