3 ms·
He's missing the main reasons why my company is going forward with a Jabber server: privacy and reliability. We are a geographically distributed company that u
by nihilocrat 18y ago
He's missing the main reasons why my company is going forward with a Jabber server: privacy and reliability.
We are a geographically distributed company that uses ICQ for a whole lot of communication, so when it goes down for any reason, work just about halts. Also, we routinely discuss very sensitive things (but we call each other if we need to discuss root passwords), so a dedicated eavesdropper could learn more than we'd like him or her to.
- josefresco 18y agoPidgin + OTR FTW
- jerf 18y agoSolves the encryption problem, but doesn't solve the reliability problem. Also, if your company needs to be able to log the IMs for compliance reasons, that doesn't solve that either. (Disclaimer: I work for a company that builds IM servers for companies. But... the above isn't exactly controversial.)
- josefresco 18y agoYou can still log with OTR, and if you use AOL/ICQ/MSN/Gtalk etc. there will always be at least one network still kicking.
- there 18y agounless your corporate network's internet connection is down...
- josefresco 18y agoThen you have bigger problems. I'd start with a reliable net connection if you want to do business online.
- there 18y agoshit happens. being able to contact someone when it does is important. i used to work for an isp and we had a private irc server that was very valuable in the case of outages when we needed to broadcast information to other departments. if i had to deploy it again now i'd choose an xmpp server, but either way, relying on an off-network communication server is not a good idea for a variety of reasons.
- axod 18y agoWhy not just an irc server, with SSL and passwords etc?