[WBEL-users] open source messaging system

[Greg Knaddison]

Jabber is ok if you can get anyone to use it...not many people have
Jabber accounts.

For the traditional AIM/MSN/ICQ/Yahoo (and Jabber and...) you can use
Miranda, Kopete, or Gaim or....  I like Gaim because it provides
fairly strong encryption of your messages regardless of IM system and
it runs on Windows/Linux/Mac so I can use it at work.  Some of the
other three I just mentioned may do this as well.

I really like Skype as well.  Skype has IM in addition to VOIP.  Skype
IM's are encrypted as well.  Skype will probably "win" the IM and VOIP
wars - at least they clearly have a major head start on everyone else.
 If you are deciding on a standard IM client to use for an office or a
group of people and you don't care about outsiders, I would make it
Skype.

Greg


On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 22:19:59 -0700, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 12:49 +0800, Plug n Play wrote:
> > Yes, Instant messaging like Jabber.
> >
> > Do you have any other recommendations for Instant Messaging?
> > 
> ---
> jabber is quick, relatively painless to install, extensible and open
> source - seems to me why bother with anything else - you can use various
> OS IM clients if you want (but you'll lose some features).
> 
> Craig
> 
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