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Article:
  Can IM Graduate to Business?
Subject:   Nothing graduates with a closed server
Date:   2001-12-21 09:57:24
From:   dsearls
The Net proliferated in large measure because anybody could put up a Web or a mail server (most commonly by Apache and Sendmail, respectively).


There is still nothing of the sort for instant messaging or presence detection, not to mention XML routing, all of which Jabber does rather nicely.


Yet we still default to thinking of AOL and MSN and YIM as incumbent IM leaders. They are not. They bear the same relationship to what IM will ultimately be as the old AOL, Prodigy and Compuserve online services did to the Internet.


IM will graduate to business when business adopts a common IM standard and set of methodologies -- and industries grow around deploying servers for IM and allied services.


Jabber is the only candidate for that.


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  • Candidates other than Jabber
    2001-12-22 20:27:58  paulbain [Reply | View]

    Doc Searls wrote that:

    <blockquote>
    "Jabber is the only candidate for that [a common IM standard and set of methodologies]."
    </blockquote>

    Perhaps. I do not understand why XMLblaster (at XMLblaster.org) or XMLbooster (at XMLbooster.com) are not also candidates. And, more generally, what about other XML messaging servers (see http://www.xml.com/pub/rg/Messaging_Servers)?

    Could you please explain why these others are not "candidates?" TIA.