Corporate IM Communication

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

It's the corporate version of AIM so no ads. I still hate it though...still fighting with my project team about it...I don't want it, they all love it Sad

Probably gonna lose out on it and have to get it...

mrweasel · Posted: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 09:41:25 Post Subject:

I run Adium, but most of the other IT folks run Trillian. I think most of our other morons use AIM.

knight0334 · Posted: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 09:51:13 Post Subject:

The company that purchased my old cable systems uses Yahoo Messenger for IM services between remote and HQ offices.

For awhile now, I've used both Yahoo and MSN messengers for work related IM service. ...depending on coworker or client needs.

I know alot of company's look down upon both Yahoo and MSN IM services for professional use. But both are fairly secure and stable. I can only count a few times where Yahoo was down for more then an hour in the last 10 years.

**Modulok** · Posted: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:58:37 Post Subject:

Well I support about 100 users...generally they will do simple things like put paper into an empty printer and switch a new cartridge.

As for MS Live Comm with public IM it is based on a monthly subscription per user. So you have 30 users, thats $30/month. It's not that bad but we would have to do alot of work on the backend.

The real sellings points for Live Comm is logging, Office integration, and app sharing.

LaTech · Posted: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:50:53 Post Subject:

At my last job, we used GAIM...which is nothing more than a program like Trillian...but it was running GroupWise messenger on it which somehow tied in with the email system.

Where I'm at now, I just block all the ports that the programs use so that nobody uses anything. yeah, I'm that guy...

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 19:00:31 Post Subject:

As an FYI... I have been seeing this ad here a bit lately... Looks like it might be a better option than some:

http://aimpro.premiumservices.aol.com/?promo=803146

**Modulok** · Posted: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:46:48 Post Subject:

well we are currently testing our new in house IM service. All is well as this is costing us nothing besides my time to setup server and clients.

Service for IM we are using is Jabber...Wildfire to be exact. Installs on Linux or Windows and just runs. All clients connect to it within our LAN so there isn't any extra bandwidth going through the internet.

I just installed the rpm on our squid server and started wildfire. Use the web to configure the jabber protocal and GAIM for clients to connect. Pretty sweet actually...offline messaging, file transfers, profiles, and I can do a broadcast IM to everyone.

Only downside is that it doesnt connect to outlook to view real time calendars...but it's not worth $4000 to have that ability.