Best IM software for LAN purposes?

[NathanBWF]

Currently we use RealPopup at work which works great except for one annoying thing, there is no print feature. You have to copy the text into notepad or something first and then print it. That being said, it's free so it's hard to complain.

What is everyone else using...?

 

[Smilin]

Microsoft LCS 2005 + Communicator

 

[sourceninja]

My last job we used our own jabber server with a jabber client.
Groupwise messenger is perty good too. We use it at my current job.

 

[Nothinman]

The Jabber protocol is an open standard so you can use any combination of servers and clients that support it.

 

[NathanBWF]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
The Jabber protocol is an open standard so you can use any combination of servers and clients that support it.

Yeah I was looking at that one earlier today. There seem to be a number of clients out there too which is kind of neat. If I get time today I'll try to setup a server and see how it goes.

MessagePal also looks like it is simple and will do everything we need it to. Just waiting to hear back from them on licensing...

 

[bmacd]

lantalk XP is nice.

-=bmacd=-

 

[Cal166]

Our company is looking into some internal messaging program. Anyone have other suggestion besides the costly Microsoft LCS 2005($8k + Cals)!

 

[kevnich2]

Try WildFire Server (http://www.jivesoftware.org/wildfire/), it's a jabber based IM server, very easy to install. They also have a jabber client you can use at the same site called Spark. Ours is configured to do authentication via Active Directory, very nice feature.

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: Cal166
Our company is looking into some internal messaging program. Anyone have other suggestion besides the costly Microsoft LCS 2005($8k + Cals)!

Stop lying. $1200 if you are paying retail (please tell me you get volume licenses)

Besides you get whatcha pay for.

Uses the open industry standard SIP protocol utilized by MS, Cisco, Lotus, AOL, MSN, Yahoo!. Integrates with PSTN gateways (phone to IM communication), scales from 100 to 100k users. Highly secure with native TLS encryption. Allows SECURE communication to AOL, MSN and Yahoo!. Also allows federations to other companies.

The ONLY two IMs you should be putting in your corporation are LCS or Lotus Sametime. LCS happens to pwn sametime (and bad!)

It's professional grade stuff but if you want cheap and insecure just skip the inhouse products all together and use like the public MSN, AIM, Yahoo's buddys and all that.

 

[doornail]

Originally posted by: Smilin
Stop lying. $1200 if you are paying retail (please tell me you get volume licenses)

Besides you get whatcha pay for.

Uses the open industry standard SIP protocol utilized by MS, Cisco, Lotus, AOL, MSN, Yahoo!. Integrates with PSTN gateways (phone to IM communication), scales from 100 to 100k users. Highly secure with native TLS encryption. Allows SECURE communication to AOL, MSN and Yahoo!. Also allows federations to other companies.

The ONLY two IMs you should be putting in your corporation are LCS or Lotus Sametime. LCS happens to pwn sametime (and bad!)

It's professional grade stuff but if you want cheap and insecure just skip the inhouse products all together and use like the public MSN, AIM, Yahoo's buddys and all that.

Professional grade ... instant messaging? You sound like a marketer.

That's just loopy to throw away cash in cyclic licensing when a Jabber server is free, supports a ton of clients on multiple platforms, can also do TSL and SASL, and you don't have to dick around juggling CAL's. Plus there are a ton of free libraries to add Jabber support to your apps.

http://www.jabber.org/software/clients.shtml

 

[edmicman]

Originally posted by: kevnich2
Try WildFire Server (http://www.jivesoftware.org/wildfire/), it's a jabber based IM server, very easy to install. They also have a jabber client you can use at the same site called Spark. Ours is configured to do authentication via Active Directory, very nice feature.

Heh, I was just going to post this. I haven't actually used it, but was looking into setting up a corp IM solution, and this sounded like it would hit the spot. Free, can run on Windows or linux, and pretty much your choice of clients. I'd definitely check it out.

 

[Smilin]

done too much typing already. see other thread...

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=34&threadid=1818132

 

[Tarrant64]

We are also using our own Jabber server at my work as well. Working out pretty well and at least we know it's secure vs. Google Talk or something like that.

 

[imported_Crusader]

Originally posted by: doornail
Professional grade ... instant messaging? You sound like a marketer.

That's just loopy to throw away cash in cyclic licensing when a Jabber server is free, supports a ton of clients on multiple platforms, can also do TSL and SASL, and you don't have to dick around juggling CAL's. Plus there are a ton of free libraries to add Jabber support to your apps.

http://www.jabber.org/software/clients.shtml

Erm.

Most real corporations worth a couple billion dollars dont want open source crap. They want someone accountable like MS. Most companies even worth a few million arent going to risk using open source with their valuable company data with something anyone can get the source code for.
I work at a world wide corporation worth billions upon billions, and we dont use a single piece of open source software like Jabber at the desktop.
Its for kids use and hobbyists.. not serious companies with information worth anything.