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What I'm still missing in Gajim is MUC history support.

While Pidgin may be a reasonable multi-protocol client as a Jabber client I would suggest Gajim, which also does PGP and esession encryption (Pidgin cannot do either, AFAIK).

Disclaimer (possible conflict of interest): I contributed the :3 smilie to the Gajim icon set.

Use Alfresco for document sharing.

Gajim all the way!

I'd recommend Gajim in Gnome or Psi in KDE or Windows. The only real advantage to using Google Talk is that it enables voice calls to oher Google Talk users but there's a summer of code project to get that in Gajim too and Psi is also getting this soon. Jabber is the future.

Personally I find better clients for both Jabber and IRC. It just doesn't feel right in Gajim (or Pidgin as it's named now). Compare gajim at http://www.gajim.org/ (jabber client) to Pidgin's Jabber features and you'll see. Minus point for gajim is it's extreme memory usage and CPU usage. IRC in Gajim felt just wrong. X-Chat does a lot better job.

Please note I haven't used Pidgin.. only these CVS dumps Ubuntu ships as stable versions of Gajim.

Unfortunately PyGTK is slow and buggy (crashes) on Windows, as the good folks over at http://www.gajim.org/ have discovered. It makes it less useful cross platform, though on linux it runs well.

I tried yesterday to store my photo in VCard on GoogleTalk server. It didn't work, which is strange -- photo in VCard is standard way to define avatars. It works with other jabber servers.

And support for MUC (Multi User Chat) is spotty -- some users were invisible to google account.

Both situation tested with Gajim.

Sure, you can use Gaim or Trillian to connect to multiple networks but why not use the proper protocol - Jabber - and let the server do the work for you? Just pick a jabber server with MSN, ICQ, AIM and Yahoo transports. Then it doesn't matter which client you use, as long as it supports jabber you're fine.

I would choose Psi http://psi-im.org/psi.affinix.com/ if you work in Windows or KDE and Gajim http://www.gajim.org/index.php?lang=en for Gnome.

Plus, you can install all sorts of nifty tools on the Jabber server: email checking, receive RSS feeds, control your jukebox...

Except that gaim had miserable Jabber support last I looked a few months back, about as bare and iChat's. Check out Pandion for Windows, or Gajim for Linux/Windows/OSX and you'll probably be happier if you're in a pure-jabber environment. Jive Messanger makes a nice internal Jabber server without the explitatives usually required for jabberd 1.4. - rustytaco

Everybody in the entire continent of Europe uses MSN Messenger

What planet did you come from? I haven't seen SINGLE PERSON using MSN ever. Everyone is using some local IM (like Gadu Gadu - 5 mln users, or Tlen - about 2 million, in Poland) or use Jabber/XMPP. In Europe.

Anyway, GAIM is mediocre Jabber client. Much better is Gajim, or Psi, used by majority jabber users.

from the site: Gajim is a Jabber client written in PyGTK. The goal of Gajim's developers is to provide a full featured and easy to use xmpp client for the GTK+ users. Gajim does not require GNOME to run, eventhough it exists with it nicely. Gajim is released under the GNU General Public License for windows, & lots of linux distros including an auto-package ...package.