Hi there, Today I noticed that there hasn't been an update to the Openfire Jabber server in more than 14 months, where 2007 and 2008 have been very active years. There's still a lot of open issues in the project. In the past years, a few Jabber projects (like legacy IM gateways or PHP libraries) have fallen asleep for indefinite time. The Psi developers push long-desired features further and further into the future while the Linux package downloads fall behind in versions. (Currently their website it only half available.)
Sometime in the last decade I saw a more or less great momentum towards open IM standards, with Google Talk and GMX/web.de introducing XMPP services or Apple iChat supporting the protocol. Recently, Facebook also joined the club (without s2s AFAIK), but I have the vague impression that the whole thing slowly falls asleep. There hasn't been real great leaps in the near past, or did I just miss them? Now even Google tries to introduce yet another messaging protocol that isn't as verbose as XML [citation needed]. Please don't tell me that Free Jabber is dying, because what's left is... once again only ICQ, MSN and restrictive terms of service. -- Yves Goergen "LonelyPixel" <[email protected]> Visit my web laboratory at http://beta.unclassified.de _______________________________________________ JDev mailing list Forum: http://www.jabberforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=20 Info: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev Unsubscribe: [email protected] _______________________________________________
