The text straight from the results page tells an interested party that it's an "enterprise messaging system", which should be good enough for any blog on forbes.com. I really have no idea where they got the gobbledygook that they used.
Something like "middleware that connects applications" would perhaps be clearer.
Oddly quite a few build systems are now turning to MQ's for build systems - beats make and jenkins it seems
So yeah, it's owned by VMware.
References? I'm curious as to who's doing this and why. I'm trying to think of a reason and not coming up with much.
THink replacing Jenkins not make
Currently we mostly use this to send internal release notifications around, e.g. "foobar-1.0.0 released, find it here <path to RPM>". Kind of neat with a n * 1000 developer organization spread over the entire world.
Currently the plugin is not open source but hopefully it will be later on.