David Ellis said: > Anyone know if there is an open source version of the Micrsoft Messenger > server? > > I was thinking of setting one up, sort of like the one offered with > exchange 2000.........
probably not but there is jabber, which is much better anyways. Theres tons of clients for jabber on many different platforms, its open, and if you ever needed it, there is a commercial company which has their own commercialized "version" for higher end needs. based on the same standard though. It also has support for encryption as well. chatting, messaging, file transfers, directories(of users), and they have gateway software to talk to the propritary IM networks as well(never used them though). last place I worked we had an office with about 25 win32 development folk and they loved it, used it all the time. the unix office didn't use it though at least not initially. it was quite stable. though at the time not the easiest to setup(I haven't set it up in over a year). I'd be shocked if there was ever a MSN server, or ICQ server or yahoo server released as open source(or released for free/non-commercial use or whatever). or AOL server too. I think thats all the major IM networks .. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
