Many NDA do not really ever expire on some projects, most work is super boring, and recovering dysfunctional architectures with a well known piece of free community software is hardly grandstanding.
"It works! so don't worry about spending a day or two exploring..." should be the takeaway insight about Erlang/RabbitMQ. Have a wonderful day. =3
With legacy equipment there is usually no such thing as a homogeneous ecosystem, as vendor industrial parts EOL all the time. Certainly room in the markets for better options with open protocols. =3