Jabber Gathers Steam In Australia

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."

Comments

As SIMPLE as that

[jabbadabbadoo]

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.

A few questions

[jlanng]

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?

Interconnected?

[nich37ways]

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.

Deployment in an office environment

[nich37ways]

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.