[ale] in house instant message solution

[Chuck Payne]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:14 PM, scott <scott at sboss.net> wrote:
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> Jabber is open source.
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> Google Talk is based on Jabber.
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> There is many clients (on many O/Ses) that allow you to connect to a "jabber" IM server.
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> scott
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> On Mar 11, 2010, at 2:09 PM, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
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>> Jabber?
>>
>> On 3/11/10 2:03 PM, Geoffrey wrote:
>>> Anyone know of an 'in house' instant message solution?  That is,
>>> something that does not rely on yahoo, or aol or such providers?  Is
>>> there such an application for Linux?
>>>
>>> Looking for a solution for a small company that can be managed internally.
>>>
>>>
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On the client side you can use pidgin (Linux/Windows/Mac) to connect
to the Jabber server.

A very simple for Windows is pandion http://www.pandion.im

I just got done set up iChat on Mac OS X that can talk to Openfire on
Linux / Red Hat.

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