The article linked below should demonstrate a good enough reason to use an enterprise IM platform rather than public IM. Apart from the levels of ’security’ offered by each public IM network it’s fairly obvious from the embedded chart that your conversations may not be very private…

How safe is instant messaging? A security and privacy survey

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Following on from my earlier post about reviewing technologies I've been having another look at the Jabber/XMPP community and there are some interesting things going on.OpenFire from Jive Software now includes public IM gateways in the open source version, this used to be in their Enterprise version, so everyone can run a sensible company IM platform now. OpenFire runs under Java so it's OS

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