Openfire/Spark - competitor for Office Communicator and Sametime
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Every now and again, you hear things from different people or you're working on different projects and you hear the same name mentioned in different conversations. For the last couple of weeks, the name I've been hearing repeatedly is Ignite Realtime. Ignite Realtime is the online community for users and developers of Jive Software's open source projects.
Some of the discussions came about because of some work we have been doing for a customer that involves XMPP, and others came about from my posting about the number of servers Sametime is starting to require if you take into account LDAP server, Advanced server etc.
Openfire is an open source Jabber server that uses the XMPP protocol and Spark is one of many clients. Openfire and Spark meet most of the requirements of enterprises and SMBs for their IM needs, chat archiving, persistent chat rooms, reporting, telephony integration with Asterisk, API Toolkits, an open extensible client (runs happily on your below average PC), file transfer, web based chat, screen capture , server and client plugins, IM gateway to AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, etc, message content filtering etc.
The only thing it's missing is web conferencing capabilities, and with www.dimdim.com an open source web conferencing platform not far away from shipping, means that you can start to get Sametime capabilities if someone was to combine/package the two products as one. If anyone is interested in attending a DimDim meeting, let me know, I was on their beta and I have an account that will let me host up to twenty people in a meeting.
Definitely a platform to keep an eye on.
Every now and again, you hear things from different people or you're working on different projects and you hear the same name mentioned in different conversations. For the last couple of weeks, the name I've been hearing repeatedly is Ignite Realtime. Ignite Realtime is the online community for users and developers of Jive Software's open source projects.
Some of the discussions came about because of some work we have been doing for a customer that involves XMPP, and others came about from my posting about the number of servers Sametime is starting to require if you take into account LDAP server, Advanced server etc.
Openfire is an open source Jabber server that uses the XMPP protocol and Spark is one of many clients. Openfire and Spark meet most of the requirements of enterprises and SMBs for their IM needs, chat archiving, persistent chat rooms, reporting, telephony integration with Asterisk, API Toolkits, an open extensible client (runs happily on your below average PC), file transfer, web based chat, screen capture , server and client plugins, IM gateway to AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, etc, message content filtering etc.
The only thing it's missing is web conferencing capabilities, and with www.dimdim.com an open source web conferencing platform not far away from shipping, means that you can start to get Sametime capabilities if someone was to combine/package the two products as one. If anyone is interested in attending a DimDim meeting, let me know, I was on their beta and I have an account that will let me host up to twenty people in a meeting.
Definitely a platform to keep an eye on.
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Posted by Glen At 02:58:51 PM On 04/21/2008 | - Website - |
To me, if I were on the Sametime team I would be more worried about this product than I would anything MS has right now.
And if they do add web conferencing/e-meeting capabilities, I think Ignite/OpenFire could be a very, very compelling alternative to enterprise IM.
Rock
Posted by Rock At 03:22:24 PM On 04/24/2008 | - Website - |