Thank you! I appreciate your help!
I suspect my questions are seemingly stupid to someone on the inside.
I'm not a developer so most of the website information is lost to me
in terms of trying to understand if Pidgin fits the requirements
stated. So you're right. I didn't download it. Not being a developer,
me guessing on the answers is impossible.
Again, thanks for clarifying for me!
-Olga
On May 29, 2009, at 12:43 AM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
On Thu, 28 May 2009, Olga Howard wrote:
Hi All,
Can anyone tell me if Pidgin will support these requirements? I had
a very difficult time assessing this from the website.
Let me guess, you haven't actually spent time downloading and using
it, have you?
-The solution shall provide a .Net API (.Net Framework 2.0)
Pidgin runs under linux (and thats its native platform), take a
guess at that one.
-The solution must be able to be hosted from a Microsoft Windows
2003/2008 server using Microsoft IIS Web Server version 6.0 or
greater
Pidgin's a client and works with many servers running many OSes.
-The solution shall support Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise
Edition 64 bit (if database access is required).
Pidgin's a client and does not need access to a database.
-The solution shall support Microsoft Active Directory for user/
group affiliation.
Pidgin is a client. This would be handled on the server.
-The solution shall support the ability to be ?re-skinned? or ?
branded?
It's open source, so in theory. Can't say it will be EASY but it's
definitely possible to modify the source to change look and feel in
some manner.
-The solution shall provide the ability to be configured in a ?
Highly Available? manner.
It's a client. It runs on the local machine, if you want high
availability in a client, get two machines. I'd say a laptop and a
desktop.
-The solution provider shall provide support for the product.
You're obviously reading from some kind of spec -- who's the provider?
-The solution shall support a minimum of the following web browsers
and browser versions: Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 5.0+,
Netscape Navigator 7.1+ and Safari 1.2+.
Pidgin isn't web based, but there's always Meebo :)
-The solution shall support N-tier architecture ? explicitly
extracting the presentation layer from the data/business logic
layer. (More specifically, the solution should not perform
presentation layer activities within a sealed ?black box? DLL.)
Ah, managerspeak. Can you give an example of what this means?
-One to one chat ? no breaking out into groups-or setting can be
turned off.
I would guess this depends which protocol you're speaking, and what
server you're using for that protocol.
-Dan Mahoney
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