Well, the one thing they have in common is that both projects were originally designed by the same person, Pieter Hintjens.

He was involved in the AMQP mess, not in designing RabbitMQ.

At least if you took his blogs at face value, he wasn't involved in the "mess", but the mess was forced on everyone by corporate interests.

And I believe this to be true. Peter was a brilliant and wonderful human being whom I shared a tremendous amount in common and largely the same viewpoint on life with. There's not a week that goes by where I don't mourn his loss and where we could be today if he were still with us.

You are correct, I misremembered.