ejabberd - Comments for "OpenSource Review"

Re: Biz Guide to OpenSource

sander — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:44:35 +0000

timjowers wrote:

Basically selling points for business. I think an IM server has the selling points of allowing people to communicate without leaving their desks. But maybe more selling points.

The benefits of instant messaging.

For ejabberd specific selling points, see:
ejabberd Feature Sheet
Comparison of different Jabber/XMPP servers

timjowers wrote:

And maybe a screenshot or something if applicable.

See on the Screenshots page.

timjowers wrote:

I've tried to do that for most everything but the more I do the more I seem to have left to do! Any blurb or whatever would be helpful. Whatever the book should say about ejabberd. Not too tehnical you know but benefits and value. Or just comments to make sure I'm barking up the right tree.

These URLs might be also useful:
Overview of Jabber
Recently security issue in AIM; a monoculture network that depends on one company: the XMPP protocol is analyzed for security by the IESG, there is no monoculture regarding client software or server software, the network is decentralized, and it is possible to deploy an internal Jabber server on the intranet that is not accessible from the Internet.

Note that next ejabberd release (to be released soon AFAIK) will have support
for some features businesses might like:
* Microsoft SQL Server support
* Improved LDAP support including Active Directory support

timjowers wrote:

In doing this book I learned a few things. One is OpenSource is truly the bear in the closet for proprietary guys. Duh. And the other is we now have a previously unimagined opportunity to accelerate software development and usefulness. Because the source is open then alot more cooperation between projects is possible. Not that this opportunity is being leveraged yet but it is new. Imagine if dotproject and Imendia Planner teams cooperate on saving project information so one can use either app. And then integrate with the ToDo list of Kontact. Tip of the iceberg! Exciting times.

One other example: ejabberd<->Kopete: The KDE people are running ejabberd at
kdetalk.net. They also submitted a patch for ejabberd that creates a new
feature (message archiving). They plan to implement the same feature in
Kopete. (With this feature

btw, you should look at Coccinella for your book.

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sander

Biz Guide to OpenSource

timjowers — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:58:07 +0000

Basically selling points for business. I think an IM server has the selling points of allowing people to communicate without leaving their desks. But maybe more selling points. And maybe a screenshot or something if applicable. I've tried to do that for most everything but the more I do the more I seem to have left to do! Any blurb or whatever would be helpful. Whatever the book should say about ejabberd. Not too tehnical you know but benefits and value. Or just comments to make sure I'm barking up the right tree.

The goal for the book is a business person buys it and is impressed by the huge opportunity to use OpenSource. They then can pick through and find what would be useful to them and leverage it in their business.

Thanks for any help,
TimJowers at serviza.com

That guide seems cool. What

sander — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 12:00:20 +0000

That guide seems cool. What kind of information do you like?

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