We're seeing an increase in the number of requests for Enterprise IM (EIM) and I'm wondering if this is wholly due to OpenFire being open sourced and Jive discontinuing commercial support or if there's a general trend away from public IM for business use.
The article linked below should demonstrate a good enough reason to use an enterprise IM platform rather than public IM. Apart from the levels of ’security’ offered by each public IM network it’s fairly obvious from the embedded chart that your conversations may not be very private…
How safe is instant messaging? A security and privacy survey
Great news that Jive Software have open sourced the Enterprise features of OpenFire, read the post
here.
Following on from my
earlier post about reviewing technologies I've been having another look at the Jabber/XMPP community and there are some interesting things going on.
OpenFire from
Jive Software now includes public IM gateways in the open source version, this used to be in their Enterprise version, so everyone can run a sensible company IM platform now. OpenFire runs under Java so it's OS
