I used trillian for a long time to communicate with friends. Hated the
way multiple platform part of it worked, but it worked.
For private IM we now mostly use WhatsApp, as it has some cost
advantages for the people in our circle that travel internationally.
For work IM, we now are using Slack. It's goofy in a couple of ways, and
when you're in a poor cell zone (we have a lot of those around here), it
doesn't work at all/
bp
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On 8/24/2016 1:14 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?
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