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On Oct 17, 2007, at 2:58 PM, Ray Hernandez wrote: > Since we are talking about collaboration, is there any interest in > "corporate" instant messaging? Our department has expressed > interest in the past in having instant messaging that would be > internal to our group. We haven't actually made the jump yet, but I > have played around with it. > > We have toyed around with the idea of rolling out a Jabber server. > The software we liked was Openfire(http://www.igniterealtime.org/ > projects/openfire/index.jsp). It has support for LDAP and Kerberos, > which makes it n easy fit for us since we could use our MSU > kerberos service for authentication. > > The nice thing about Openfire is that it can interface with other > Jabber-compatible service providers so you can add people from > outside the university to your buddy list and it takes care of the > rest of the mojo. > > I'd love to see a campus messaging service like that, but maybe > external providers are sufficient enough for our campus. We've been using IRC at ACNS for some years now (http:// irc.acns.msu.edu). I'd like to see a chat server that was used more broadly (and was provisioned from centrally). I'm not a jabber fan, but I understand why it would make sense to choose that option. Do any other departments use IRC or other chat which they host? ./mk -- Matt Kolb <[log in to unmask]> Academic Computing & Network Services Michigan State University