OTish: Alternative to MS Live?
All, Our new CEO wants me to poke holes in the firewall and install the MS client on a number of desktops to facilitate IM/videoconferencing for this. That makes me vaguely nauseous, for several security reasons (the client is historically vulnerable, poking holes in firewalls is risky, and internal corporate communications should stay internal - that'll do for a start...) I'm looking to stick an IM/Videoconference system in a DMZ instead. Does anyone know of a good alternative - preferably with a web interface, though that's not absolutely required? Thanks, Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: OTish: Alternative to MS Live?
On Tuesday 08 December 2009 5:50:46 pm Kurt Buff wrote: All, Our new CEO wants me to poke holes in the firewall and install the MS client on a number of desktops to facilitate IM/videoconferencing for this. That makes me vaguely nauseous, for several security reasons (the client is historically vulnerable, poking holes in firewalls is risky, and internal corporate communications should stay internal - that'll do for a start...) I'm looking to stick an IM/Videoconference system in a DMZ instead. Does anyone know of a good alternative - preferably with a web interface, though that's not absolutely required? Thanks, Kurt ___ Others may come up with better solutions, but you might want to look at OpenFire for your IM needs (I use it in my shop; it's secure and works great), and maybe dimdim for vidconf (both hosted - free for up to 20 conferees, and locally installed options). Dimitri -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: OTish: Alternative to MS Live?
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 15:03, Dimitri Yioulos dyiou...@firstbhph.com wrote: On Tuesday 08 December 2009 5:50:46 pm Kurt Buff wrote: All, Our new CEO wants me to poke holes in the firewall and install the MS client on a number of desktops to facilitate IM/videoconferencing for this. That makes me vaguely nauseous, for several security reasons (the client is historically vulnerable, poking holes in firewalls is risky, and internal corporate communications should stay internal - that'll do for a start...) I'm looking to stick an IM/Videoconference system in a DMZ instead. Does anyone know of a good alternative - preferably with a web interface, though that's not absolutely required? Thanks, Kurt ___ Others may come up with better solutions, but you might want to look at OpenFire for your IM needs (I use it in my shop; it's secure and works great), and maybe dimdim for vidconf (both hosted - free for up to 20 conferees, and locally installed options). Dimitri The locally installed option would be what I'm interested in. I'll check those out. Thanks. Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
