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Telepathy/Empathy also supports Jingle. Coccinella (two "c"s) supports Jingle, but uses IAX as the transport, so you won't be able to chat with most other people.

By the way, the base Jingle spec is XEP-0166, and was just recently advanced to "Draft" status.

Anything that is Jabber/XMPP based will support a wide range of clients and has the ability to use SSL. You not only can encrypt SSL traffic, but a good server will allow you to require clients that connect to have a known and valid certificate. And the server must have a certificate that is known to the client. It's only as secure as your process of distributing the certificates.

For a client there are many. Coccinella has a nice whiteboard features that I have found useful in the corporate world. But Pidgin, Miranda and others are fine too. (I also use centerim in a screen session of all things)

Well, GTalk or Gmail extension what have you, use the OpenAim standard of course not the original AIM protocol. So my point really is that AOL's progression in this realm at least has been going in this direction. This blog seems to argue against the positive nature of AIM moving to Gmail, but I think the comments point out that long-term it should be positive, especially since one of the suggestions of the article are now implemented! I think bottom line is AOL knew that OSCAR was dead and rather develop from the ground up, they open it up and let the world do it. Another win for OSS!

Just some side information. I read Coccinella will already switch to Tcl/Tk 8.5 in a few months (12 March). See comment at the end of the announcement of the latest release: http://coccinella.im/coccinella-0.96.4 Oh yes, and Coccinella is already using an older version of Tile for Tcl/Tk 8.4. This is some sexy theme proof that Tcl/Tk shouldn't be ugly: http://coccinella.im/stuff/sexy.png

Just some side information. I read Coccinella will already switch to Tcl/Tk 8.5 in a few months (12 March). See comment at the end of the announcement of the latest release: http://coccinella.im/coccinella-0.96.4 Oh yes, and Coccinella is already using an older version of Tile for Tcl/Tk 8.4. This is some sexy theme proof that Tcl/Tk shouldn't be ugly: http://coccinella.im/stuff/sexy.png

My website ( http://coccinella.im/ ) receives more than 60% Firefox users, Internet Explorer has a share less than 20%. Oh yes, it's not a personal site, but a real website with lot's of visitors (not as much as google.com etc of course). Anyway, I think blocking Firefox is stupid. I don't think the person that is behind this action is involved with the advertissement business as this is bad PR for their business and will cost them money. I think Microsoft is behind this campaign (or it least sponsoring it) for these reasons:
* FUD to slow down Firefox adoption and to create the impression that websites will not be able to earn money from adds on their website if they allow Firefox
* giving Firefox users an incentive to fake their browser identification to access websites. This is important for Microsoft because in the past people would do this by themselves to access several websites...these websites are now removing the requirement for IE and also allow Firefox (and other browsers). So, by this action Microsoft tries to force users to change their browser identification again and by this Microsoft can give the impression the Firefox growth stalls.

So, in case this campaign is successful, I suggest this counter attack: add support for http://explorerdestroyer.com/ to your website (I did not did this yet for the simple reason that I think it is still too hostile, plus I don't want to only promote Firefox; I want to promote browsers that care about open standards. Though, I still plan to create a much less hostile version in the near future because we only get less than 20% of users with an incompatible browser B-) )