We are using slack.com now. Works pretty well. -- Christopher Tyler MTCRE/MTCNA/MTCTCE/MTCWE Total Highspeed Internet Services 417.851.1107
----- Original Message ----- From: "That One Guy /sarcasm" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2016 3:23:58 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] anyone using trillian IM? openfire is jabber/xmpp, just easy for a guy who doesnt give a shit about doing any work on an IM server besides installing it from a script and occasionally pushing an update. A non battery drain on mobile is a big deal, and dumb user file transfer has been a godsend On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 3:18 PM, George Skorup <[email protected]> wrote: > Everybody has a company Android on our Apps domain, so we just use > Hangouts. > > On 8/24/2016 3:14 PM, That One Guy /sarcasm wrote: > > We run an openfire server and have always used the spak im client for > interoffice communication between TS, CS and and administration > the problem is we never knew who was where and it required a different > username on each device, workstation, mobile, laptop, etc without > configuring a boot on the openfire server, just a pita to remember to login > logout everytime you changed locations if you wanted uniformity, and > histories only logged on the server, so if i popped on my laptop on the > same account as my workstation it wouldnt have the workstation history. > > trillian solves this as you connect to the trillian server and it connects > to your inhouse im server (or yahoo aol or facebook, etc) from multiple > devices at the same time > > They have a free client with their server with ads or whatever, a paid > client with some features, and an in house server with perpetual licensing > and optional renewal > > It seems to meet the need, however, im my previous interweb miscreient > days it was trillian and ICQ i used to deliver sub7 packages to my > unsuspecting victims, ie, it was a toy software. It seems to have grown, > but is it still a toy software? > > -- > If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team > as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. > > > -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
