[thelist] Looking for secure, corporate IM client/server

[Chris Johnston]

On 4/19/05, Ken Schaefer <Ken at adopenstatic.com> wrote:
> I think you have a few options. All the major vendors have some kind of
> corporate IM product (Lotus has "Sametime", Microsoft has "Live Communication
> Server"), and as others have mentioned there is Jabber.
> 
> You need to look at the feature set you want:
> a) Do you want to encrypt and/or sign communications?
> b) Do you want to have a central archiving function for storing
> communications for later retrieval?
> c) Do you want the ability to centrally lockdown the environment so that
> people can't alter the settings of the client and connect to external
> sources.
> 

Sticking with the Open Source idea of Jabber, how many of the above
criteria does it satisfy? What are peoples impression of Jabber?

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