History of IBM MQSeries

A Brief History of MQ
1992

• Systems Strategies (SSI) develops ezBridge, a messaging and queuing product for VMS, Tandem, and Unix
• IBM announces Networking Blueprint defining three standard APIs for program to program communication: CPI-C, RPC, MQI
• 1992-3 State Street Bank (Boston) evaluates IBM messaging product (code name “Victory”)  for IBM CICS/ESA and SSI’s ezBridge on VMS and Tandem.
• “State Street Bank would like to announce the wedding of IBM  and Systems Strategies!”
• In 1993 IBM buys intellectual property rights for ezBridge from SSI