[NTLUG:Discuss] IM server open source?

[Tony]

2008/8/14 Daniel Hauck <daniel at yacg.com>:
> Chris Cox さんは書きました:
>> Carlos Wesbrooks wrote:
>>> I had a question from my IT guy at work and I don't know the answer, maybe
>>> someone on this list knows an answer.  I was asked if I knew of an open
>>> source Instant Messenger Server I had no answer for him but told him I would
>>> look and see.  I have been touting open source every time we talk as an
>>> alternative to what he is talking about and this may be a chance to get some
>>> started here at work so any advice on the this would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> We run a jabber server here... I even tied it into our AD so the Windows
>> folks are happy when they login.
>>
>> Jabber protocol is what Google's IM uses.
>>
> Nice!  Care to share any details on this?  I might do that here at the
> office.  I have enough IM users here that chat amongst themselves and I
> see no reason for the messages to bounce between desktops via AOL's
> servers on the public internet.

Openfire makes a pretty good and flexible product. We use it at my
work. We chose openfire because it had logging and reporting
capabilities. We had to purchase the "enterprise" plugin at first, but
it is now opensource also. I see where it can integrate with your AD
but currently its just our dept so we do not have it configured that
way. Also it can act as an IM proxy for any other messaging protocols
such as, yahoo, msn, etc and even irc. I would strongly recommend it.