We're seeing an increase in the number of requests for Enterprise IM (EIM) and I'm wondering if this is wholly due to OpenFire being open sourced and Jive discontinuing commercial support or if there's a general trend away from public IM for business use.
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
Great news that Jive Software have open sourced the Enterprise features of OpenFire, read the post
here.
Jive Software launched their new web site this weekend, focusing on Clearspace and Clearspace Community (formerly Clearspace X). This site is very slick and 'Web 2.0' and creates a great online brand for Clearspace and their new community '
Clearstep'. Learn more about Clearspace Community
here.
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
Clearspace is an excellent example of a product that makes something more by combining some parts. I bet many of us have thought about how best to use technolgies like blogs, wiki's and forums.Well think no more and just
install Clearspace and you're all set, then start
creating plugins to get that extra 10% you need.
Jive's enterprise collaboration software
"...there is no viable alternative in the marketplace to Clearspace from Jive Software"
Chuck Hollis, VP of Technology Alliances at EMC
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