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.
Posted by: Administrator in xmpp, IM on
Jun 13, 2008
We're please to announce that we've become a sponsor of the XMPP Standards Foundation.
XMPP has been around since 1999 and was/is commonly called Jabber Instant messaging, but it's much more than that now as social networks take off and architects are looking for a protocol to glue these systems together. XMPP has s shot at taking that space. We've been 'lurking' on the edges of IM/XMPP since 1999-2000 with our own EIM product called CipherIM which was unfortunately discontinued in 2003.
Keep checking at www.cleartext.net for news about our new XMPP platform later in 2008.
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
Posted by: Administrator in xmpp, technology on
May 13, 2008
Having followed XMPP since it's inception in 1999 and developed software around the platform, I can see some widespread activity in the greater web, rather than just discreet deployments as an IM platform.
The XMPP community is talking about social networks and how XMPP could have a role in connecting these in a pub-sub fashion. An interesting article (spotted by Tamir) on Social Media Today points towards this type of connectivity.
Great news that Jive Software have open sourced the Enterprise features of OpenFire, read the post
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
