Evening all,
I have a new project and before I dive to deeply into it I thought I
would "browse" the knowledge base of the eug-lug. I am looking at
setting up an instant messaging service for the division I work in. This
service must meet the following criteria:
1) Must be easy to use. So far I like the AIM or MSN approach to the
messengers.
2) Must run on WinNT and Win2k. Would be very nice if there was a
Platform independent version (Java?), but at this point that is not
required.
3) Should run as a service and reside in the task bar (on the windows
boxes).
4) Must not require a server outside of our WAN. No messages can leave
our network (security issues).
5) It would be VERY nice if the server software ran on linux.
6) The server should be able to maintain groups of users (E.g. I would
like to message all of the users in the Foo.bar group) as well as a list
of all users (e.g. I don't want to have to have each users add everybody
in our organization.)
7) A group chat feature would be very nice (maybe similar to a chat
room?) but again this is not required.
8) A web based interface would be nice, but not essential.
Does anybody know of a package that meets these criteria? Maybe
something close? I have looked at Jabber, but so far the clients are
crap and the server documentation (all 4 or 5 pages of it) sucks. AIM
and MSN Messenger are out because they all connect to a central server.
I believe that ICQ and mIRC are out for the same reasons (they don't
sell their server packages do they?)
Thanks in advance.
Garl
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