Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} open-source: chat, tasks, resources, code

[Grant]

> > > For chat, run an IRC or XMPP server.
> >
> > Has anyone used an XMPP client for communication/collaboration within
> > a company that they would recommend?
>
> Surely you meant server there, not client?

I thought I meant client.  Does server functionality vary as far as what
shows up on the client end?  I imagined the client-facing functionality to
be the same amongst the various servers.

> XMPP clients are a dime a dozen, take you pick: pidgin, kopete,
> telepathy and a hots of others.
>
> Servers are another story. All of them that you can lay your hands on
> seem to suck big eggs big time. ejabberd is the only one I found
> stable enough to actually stay up for sane amounts of time, and not
> DEPEND on java.
>
> But that info might be well out of date, I haven't looked at our
> jabber server for ages. There's no need to - the techies all
> gravitated by themselves over to GTalk and Skype, claiming that the
> cloud services did everything they needed and more, and it was there,
> and it worked. Our in-house jabber server - not so much.
>
> Can't say I blame them. It's true.

Thanks Alan, this is just the kind of info I need.  It sounds like I would
be better off with a cloud solution for collaborative chat.

- Grant