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We also use the Wilefire http://www.jivesoftware.org/wildfire/ server and spark.

I do have one problem with spark though, its fairly slow to load on our machines (I work as IT at a high school 400mhz - 800mhz is our average machine speeds...)

I just tried teh Exodus client from http://exodus.jabberstudio.org/ and i have to say im really likeing it just for the load times.

btw even here on my home machine spark seems slow :/ (athlon 64x2 3800+ 2gb ram ... )

let me second jive software's wildfire jabber server.

it's java so it runs anywhere. i'm currently running it as a service on a windows 2000 workstation.

the web admin interface is nice.

i'm running the old version (jive messenger) as the newer plugins and expanded database support haven't been reason enough to upgrade and i don't consider security a big enough issue on an intranet. don't let my downplaying of the new plugins discourage you, but instead it should speak highly of how well the basic server fulfills communication needs (instant messaging & chat rooms).

my only other suggestion would be to use psi as the client. it's cross-platform (windows, macosx, linux), coded with qt, so that should easy your it support if there's multiple platforms. of course spark is cross-platform too, being java, but i don't have any experience having found psi sufficient for ~4 years.

Or pickup the software from JiveSoftware. They have a client and server. The server can even tie into you Active Directory Domain if I remember correctly. I used an earlier version of their server with both Exodus and Gaim (before they had their own client).

http://www.jivesoftware.org/wildfire/

The best jabber implementation that I have used is Wildfire by Jivesoftware. It was really really easy to install and setup (even with LDAP support), and our company has been using it for months and months. It's really great to have an internal IM server.

We use JiveServer (Wildfire) and the associated spark client.

It uses the jabber protocol and as such, can be used with a variety of IM clients.

Lately, I've been a huge fan of what they are doing at Jive Software. I forcefully tasked myself with replacing our lackluster Jabberd2 server with something better and found this to be a much better solution. Their product does wonderfully with LDAP authentication and their IM client is simple to install/use. Of course, the server side portion is open source. It's a wonderful free solution that works with many different clients like GAIM, PSI, Trillion, and probably alot more.

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