On Tuesday 02 May 2006 12:36, Jon Dowland wrote: > At 1146403978 past the epoch, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Why not move it to Jabber? More people use and know what Jabber is > > these days than IRC. > > Really? I'd love to see some figures.
can't find much hard numbers, let along comparisons between IRC-use and Jabber use, but here is the general info regarding jabber use I found: - jabber.com appearently had 4 milion licensed users back in 2003 [1] with an additional 6 milion estimated open source users at that time thus surpassing the number of ICQ users [2] - since then we've had xmpp (the jabber protocol) published as RFC, - Jabber Journal 23 [3] mentions that there are over 10.000 activer jabber servers on the public network (so not counting those behind company firewalls), the same page also names a number of big deployments (such as France Telecom, Bellsouth, Orange, AT&T, EDS, FedEx, HP, Oracle, and Sun) - Apple added xmpp support to iChat [3] [9]. - googletalk uses xmpp [4] and is now federated [10] - according to the latest jabber journal IBM is adding xmpp support to Lotus Sametime [4] - sun's IM server uses xmpp [5] - [6] lists 13 different jabber server implementations (of which 7 are proprietary ones from different companies), [7] lists a gazillion clients, [8] lists a gazillion software libraries for using xmpp [1] http://www.jabber.com/index.cgi?CONTENT_ID=357 [2] http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39117160,00.htm [3] http://www.jabber.org/journal/2005-06-24.shtml [4] http://www.jabber.org/journal/2006-03-24.shtml [5] http://www.sun.com/software/products/instant_messaging/ [6] http://www.jabber.org/software/servers.shtml [7] http://www.jabber.org/software/clients.shtml [8] http://www.jabber.org/software/libraries.shtml [9] http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/ichat/ [10] http://googletalk.blogspot.com/2006/01/xmpp-federation.html -- Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) 1. Encrypted mail preferred (GPG KeyID: 0x86624ABB) 2. Plain-text mail recommended since I move html and double format mails to a low priority folder (they're mainly spam)
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