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Jabber Makes It Good

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the rolling-the-open dept.

el bastardo writes "According to this ZDNet article, IBM is building a new IM network for the Washington, DC area government agencies using Jabber as the base protocol."

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  1. Good idea by ObviousGuy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is a good idea. It seems to be like a huge cell phone network that won't have line overload problems during emergencies.

    Finally, an open source project used for good.

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  2. Jabber on Cell-phones? by anonymous+cupboard · · Score: 5, Interesting
    How would they do that? PDAs I can understand, especially if they run Linux, but cellphones? Or is this just some kind of SMSJabber Gateway. If memory servers me right. Jabber is easy to plug into other systems with server Gateways.

    Also, note the cost, $20m is peanuts for a Govt project. I guess they will try to use existing infrastructure where possible.

    1. Re:Jabber on Cell-phones? by AussiePenguin · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Maybe IBM are going to make a Jabber enabled phone?

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    2. Re:Jabber on Cell-phones? by X-ViRGE · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Actually, France TeleCom and SwissCom both provide Jabber-enabled cell phones. It may be using an SMS gateway of some kind, but it doesn't have to. Jabber clients don't have to be using linux...

  3. SameTime anyone? by SGHarms · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wonder how IBM's push of this is going to affect their sametime Intsant Messenger for Lotus Notes.

    I won't argue that Jabber clients, by virtue of being OSS and infinitely customizable, offer a greater feature set than the SameTime client (the java version of which barely runs on *IX).

    My question is, is this IBM conceding that SameTime sucks (likely) and that they are looking for their Open Source embracing design theory to force the demise of SameTime as an IM client?

    (That said, I think that ST may be the best enterprise collaboration untility still -- a thouand VNC streams just don't cut it -- unless someone knows something better?).

  4. Jabber!? by Greyfox · · Score: 5, Interesting

    But I have to use fucking Sametime Connect inside the company! The bastards! Having to use Lotus software is the biggest downside to working at IBM. They have to justify that 6 billion dollar investment in Lotus, you see? And despite the fact that IBM is all gung-ho about Linux, we'll never see Linux ports of that software. I suspect it's not that they don't want to as much as no one really knows enough about the code base to even make the attempt. Or to be able to document their file formats. Lotus is this decade's Token Ring.

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  5. Look around by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    There is internal software at IBM to connect jabber to sametime. You just have to find it.