In 2005 JPMorgan Chase approached other firms to form a working group that included Cisco Systems, IONA Technologies, iMatix, Red Hat, and Transaction Workflow Innovation Standards Team (TWIST).
V., Hartmut Pilch stepped aside as president of the FFII, and Pieter Hintjens, CEO of iMatix, was elected the new FFII president.
iMatix CEO Pieter Hintjens registered the zeromq.org domain in May 2007 and started the ØMQ project together with Martin Sustrik, who was its architect and lead developer until December 2011.