Apple already uses the Jabber protocol for its Rendezvous/ZeroConf-based peer-to-peer chat in its iChat AV client. They have also officially announced that Mac OS X Server 10.4 "Tiger" will include a Jabber-enabled "iChat Server:"
"Based on the open source Jabber project, the new iChat server in Tiger Server lets your company protect its internal communications by defining its own namespace, and use SSL/TLS encryption to ensure privacy. The iChat server works with both the iChat client in Mac OS X Tiger and popular open source clients available for Windows, Linux and even PDAs."
<http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/tiger/>
Since their web browser Safari also "draws on KHTML and KJS software from the KDE open source project," I'd assume that Apple will not build their Jabber server from scratch.
<http://www.apple.com/safari/>
IMHO both Apple and the Jabber community would benefit if there was a collaboration here: Apple may help improve the server code (whatever server they may use) and promote the Jabber brand; also, providing a fully XMPP compliant (as certified or endorsed by the JSF), easy-to-configure and stable server would help them market the Xserve machines as the perfect "plug-in-and-go" IM solution for small to medium-sized businesses like creative agencies that mostly use Apple products anyway.
Possibly, this will not generate the same mindshare for Jabber that a collaboration with an ISP would provide, but, then again, Apple is known for its marketing (and hype ;) ) savvy, so it would be nice if Jabber could benefit from their brand name "shine" a bit.
So, I wonder: has the JSF contacted Apple about such a collaboration in any way?
GreetinX,
Jochen.
-- "Our gut-level distaste for something new is less about our reaction to the thing in question than it is about our fears of abandoning the familiar and comfortable." -- Andy Ihnatko
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