It could be that no updates = stability! I have spent the last year developing an XMPP Server and client in a non-IM space commercially and our group seems to find new uses for them springing up all the time. It's honestly a difficult sell when people hear the word IM; the idea is often dismissed; but I was able to sell it. We decided to home-grow it because we wanted to be in control of our releases, and we wanted to be able to do mini mods without having to explain it to some other team, and we wanted to have someone (me!) know all the intimate details of how it all works.
Honestly, the impetus and excitement for me came from Google with Google Wave, who seems to have hijacked the standard. However I was so pleased to be able to go through the standard in one screen, and the code for the client and server in another screen and tick off each piece of functionality. I built it from scratch, using .Net 3.5 and C# and have enjoyed almost every minute of it. So I would just like to conclude by saying that I stand on the shoulders of all the engineers and enthusiast before me, and GREATLY APPRECIATE a well thought out, standard, and foundation for something really wonderful. So Thanks!! Matt Mason -----Original Message----- From: jdev-boun...@jabber.org [mailto:jdev-boun...@jabber.org] On Behalf Of Yves Goergen Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2010 2:39 PM To: Jabber software development list Subject: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP? Hi there, Today I noticed that there hasn't been an update to the Openfire Jabber server in more than 14 months, where 2007 and 2008 have been very active years. There's still a lot of open issues in the project. In the past years, a few Jabber projects (like legacy IM gateways or PHP libraries) have fallen asleep for indefinite time. The Psi developers push long-desired features further and further into the future while the Linux package downloads fall behind in versions. (Currently their website it only half available.) Sometime in the last decade I saw a more or less great momentum towards open IM standards, with Google Talk and GMX/web.de introducing XMPP services or Apple iChat supporting the protocol. Recently, Facebook also joined the club (without s2s AFAIK), but I have the vague impression that the whole thing slowly falls asleep. There hasn't been real great leaps in the near past, or did I just miss them? Now even Google tries to introduce yet another messaging protocol that isn't as verbose as XML [citation needed]. Please don't tell me that Free Jabber is dying, because what's left is... once again only ICQ, MSN and restrictive terms of service. -- Yves Goergen "LonelyPixel" <nospam.l...@unclassified.de> Visit my web laboratory at http://beta.unclassified.de _______________________________________________ JDev mailing list Forum: http://www.jabberforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=20 Info: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev Unsubscribe: jdev-unsubscr...@jabber.org _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ JDev mailing list Forum: http://www.jabberforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=20 Info: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev Unsubscribe: jdev-unsubscr...@jabber.org _______________________________________________
