It took _forever_ to get a self-hosted Jabber-based chat client going at a mid-sized corporation, about 10 years ago. Someone went “rogue” and set a server up a

It took _forever_ to get a self-hosted Jabber-based chat client going at a mid-sized corporation, about 10 years ago. Someone went “rogue” and set a server up anyway. Our security staff began blocking ports, so it eventually died anyway... in favor of Skype and Yammer. All because no one wanted to host chat history and a server.