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Jabber Gathers Steam In Australia

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the little-collectable-steam-packets dept.

Jeremy Lunn writes "Jabber is on a rolling start in Australia with this article featured in The Age in Melbourne (and the Sydney Morning Herald) 'Jabbering classes push for more power' and the formation of Jabber Australia."

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  1. As SIMPLE as that by jabbadabbadoo · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Jabber is, well, technically superior. But history is a good teacher (Beta vs. VHS, etc, etc, etc)

    SIMPLE is simple and standard; a recipe for success.

  2. Re:Whoopee... by frankjr · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There's also Exodus on Windows, too. I hate the fact that there isn't a Gabber2 yet... Julian please hurry...

  3. A few questions by jlanng · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I use Windows mostly for work, and all of my friends use Windows exclusively. Are there any good Jabber clients for Windows?

    Is there any facility for end-to-end encryption?

    Does it work over port 80?

    1. Re:A few questions by Plug · · Score: 2, Interesting

      The article quotes RhymBox (I wouldn't have named a client that with another program called RhythmBox out there, which actually makes more sense as a name!), which seems like a bit of a MSN Messenger UI derived client. Upon first play it's very nice!

      Free for non commercial use and apparently has source (according the the "You can modify software" clause in the license".)

      Otherwise, I use JAJC, which is nice, but written in Delphi so not entire like the WIndows UI everywhere. But since when was any other IM entirely like the Windows UI?

  4. Interconnected? by nich37ways · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is there a system setup for connecting all the local, public jabber servers together to create a world network. Ie if I had the resources and wanted to could I create a server that allows people to connect to me and also talk to a host of international people as well?

    As nice as it is been able to talk to people in my country only (Australia) is it as simple as ICQ in talking to people all over the globe?

    I know not everyone would want to join such a system however this is what is required to really become popular with the *average* user, ie not anyone reading slashdot.

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  5. Re:Jabber? Jab who? by westyvw · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you are truly australian. I have come to really like you guys. You have overclockers.com.au which is the nicest, friendliest, and great source of info anywhere. I used to have a bad opinion about the aussies, cause I worked with this cheap ass skank from Australia who didnt know a damn thing about anything.
    But I have beem turned around, also my kudos to Dans Data another great site.
    Jabber on dude.

  6. Re:Uh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Well, it takes some minutes to set up jabberd14 but there is a lot of simple documentation (even a step-by-step guide). Compared to anything with similar complexity (say for example GNU Mailman) setting up a Jabber server is pretty easy. The only thing you have to do basically is adjust firewall rules and insert your hostname in the configuration file.

  7. Deployment in an office environment by nich37ways · · Score: 3, Interesting

    At work we have been playing the "No you can't use yahoo messenger for internal communications" game for a fair while now, with people continuing to try despite the explanations that putting potentialy sensitive information over a system we have no control over is totally unacceptable in any security model.

    Has anyone here succesfully rolled out Jabber in a corporate environment, how succesfull was it and how well did the users react to it?

    Can Jabber authentication be tied into standard linux/unix account authorization systems so that it becomes possible to tell users they have an account and to access they use there standard user login and password. I assume it is relatively easy to stop the jabberd from connecting to other jabber networks as this would be a must.

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    1. Re:Deployment in an office environment by MourningBlade · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Has anyone here succesfully rolled out Jabber in a corporate environment, how succesfull was it and how well did the users react to it?

      There have been quite a few, according to the Jabber mailing lists. We're working on one right now, and it has done rather poorly - most of the users are not very interested in keeping in touch. That and the clients are pretty bad. Oh, and the ones who do do IM already run on client, and are highly resistant to running another one. In other words: inertia is a big factor.

      We've had some people start to use it, mostly to communicate with me, personally.

      We saw some usage in the first week, then it's like everyone forgot about it. I view it as a lost cause, but I'm going to keep it available as I use it and I'm moving our team over to it.

      On the good side, every time AOL's server becomes inaccessible, people hop on our Jabber server. They usually stay on until the end of the day.