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On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 12:30:16 +0100 |
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Marc Joliet <marcec@×××.de> wrote: |
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> Am Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:04:46 -0800 |
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> schrieb Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>: |
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> [...] |
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> > > XMPP clients are a dime a dozen, take you pick: pidgin, kopete, |
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> > > telepathy and a hots of others. |
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> > > Servers are another story. All of them that you can lay your |
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> > > hands on seem to suck big eggs big time. ejabberd is the only one |
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> > > I found stable enough to actually stay up for sane amounts of |
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> > > time, and not DEPEND on java. |
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> > > |
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> > > But that info might be well out of date, I haven't looked at our |
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> > > jabber server for ages. There's no need to - the techies all |
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> > > gravitated by themselves over to GTalk and Skype, claiming that |
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> > > the cloud services did everything they needed and more, and it |
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> > > was there, and it worked. Our in-house jabber server - not so |
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> > > much. |
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> > > |
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> > > Can't say I blame them. It's true. |
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> > Thanks Alan, this is just the kind of info I need. It sounds like |
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> > I would be better off with a cloud solution for collaborative chat. |
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> Just out of curiosity: why couldn't you use a Jabber client with |
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> Bonjour/Zeroconf support (all or most of them?) within the company |
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> (which is what this is for IIUC)? With Zeroconf, the Jabber clients |
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> "find each other", then you wouldn't need to bother with setting up a |
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> server. |
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> Or is Zeroconf problematic? I know Pidgin can do Zeroconf on Windows, |
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> even if you need to manually install a separate package for it to |
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> work. |
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That doesn't really work when one fellow is at his desk in the office, |
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another at home on an ADSL connection and the third is a 3rd party dev |
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based in Los Angeles. That's quite common for me. |
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Zeroconf has it's uses, but it does have a rather narrow scope as to |
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where it can work. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |