[JDEV] im unified

[Mark Zamoyta]

I've been trying to contact IMUnified via email for several weeks and
haven't heard back yet despite their press release stating:  "We welcome the
participation of other interested IM companies who share the vision of
interoperability based on open standards and encourage them to join our
efforts."

Also in their press  release of 7/25 they mentioned a spec would be released
by the end of August.  What are the chances that 9 large member companies
with 9 different IM protocols can get together and find a solution within 1
month?  Zero!!!

It'll be a long time before IMUnified releases something of substance that
will get implemented by the member companies, so I hope Jabber keeps doing
its own thing:  stabalize the system & transports, and make it scalable to
millions of users.

Mark


>
>
> On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Rob Brown wrote:
>
> > May I jump in here? (with my first message to the group)
> >
> > I personally think it would be greatly in Jabber.org's interest to join
> > this coalition.  If nothing else, it might allow Jabber users to more
> > seamlessly communicate with users of those member instant messaging
systems
> > (MSN, Powow, Yahoo, etc), without having to get accounts at all those
> > respective systems.  It also would likely help to get Jabber's name in
the
> > press here and there.
>
> I don't see any advantage to the development effort, unless IMunified
> wants to adopt jabber as their platform and/or contribute material
> resources to jabber.org.  It is extremely unlikely that jabber has escaped
> their attention.
>
> Hey, wait a minute!  Jabber is an open project, so there's nothing to stop
> a 3rd party from approaching IMunified.  Does IMunified have a forum or
> something where you could make inquiries?
>
> Kit
>
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