Greetings, I've followed the development of Jabber for a long time, looking at it from an end-user perspective. (And if I ever learn to program I'd like to take a shot at playing with the code.)
I think most people do see Jabber just as an IM system, at least when they first come to it. Following the project I know it can do much more. The idea for writing an article for Senior Management that Ashvil mentioned could help to change people's minds about the uses for Jabber. (I hope you will let us know when it is ready.) However, I think the one thing that will convince people what the possibilities are of the Jabber system is to build something they can use. That way they can 'see it in action' and see that it does more than just IM. If it is presented to end users as an IM system, that is all they will see it as. And not trying to stir up any trouble, but has anyone talked to the people at Trillian about supporting Jabber servers? I know many people that use it as an IM client. It is a nice, easy to use client. Adding in support for one more system (Jabber) could only make it better and give Jabber a big boost. Most of the people I've talked to don't want to have to have yet another desktop icon for IM systems. That is why they went to Trillian in the first place. They are also afraid of downloading and installing the Jabber clients since they 'aren't finished being developed.' Just some thoughts that I hope will help. James Husum BiznizWEB, Inc. http://www.biznizweb.com/ http://www.scifitvfans.com/ http://www.brainsludge.com/ _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
