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Article:
  Can IM Graduate to Business?
Subject:   Candidates other than Jabber
Date:   2001-12-22 20:27:58
From:   paulbain
Response to: Nothing graduates with a closed server

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.