title: AMQP vs Websphere MQ
body: <p>We're working on an application that supports AMQP for queuing.  Some of our clients are using Websphere MQ.  I'm just wondering at a high level how interchangeable these two protocols are in terms of functionality.  I'm using <a href="http://celeryproject.org/" rel="noreferrer">celery</a>, which should allow me to abstract out the lower-level stuff as long as I can write a Websphere MQ backend.  What I'm trying to figure out is how difficult a challenge this will be.</p>
  
  <p>Does Websphere MQ provide a superset of AMQP's functionality?  Does either one have any "features" that might make my life difficult?</p>