[JDEV] Where is 1.4

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Hi Kevin,

You might want to chat with Thomas Muldowney (a.k.a. temas -- email/JID:
temas at jabber.org) about the reliability and scalability of the AIM
Transport, since he developed it. How many concurrent users are you
expecting to be connected to the transport at any one time? How many
messages per second are you expecting? More generally, is this Jabber
implementation intended mainly as a gateway to AIM? My feeling is (not
based on testing I have performed, mind you, and temas is the really one
to talk with) that the AIM Transport will not scale up as strongly as
the Jabber server itself, so the more traffic you can make Jabber-native
the better. Also, if all or most of the employees of this Fortune 500
company will be using Jabber, you might want to talk with the folks at
Jabber.com since their forthcoming "Jabber Commercial Server" will scale
up even more significantly than the Jabber.org open-source code (it
includes code for server farming and other high-traffic applications),
and will integrate well with LDAP, which most Fortune 500 companies are
using for directory services (not sure about your specific customer, of
course).

Hope this helps.

Peter

--
Peter Saint-Andre
stpeter at jabber.org

kadokev at msg.net wrote:
> 
> I'm looking at Jabber as a solution for a client (a major corporation),
> we are considering Jabber as a way to get the AIM client off the desktops of
> internal users, and internal IM traffic off of the AOL network, by putting a
> Jabber server on a protected extranet segment with the AIM transport.
> 
> With the 1.4 release, can I reasonably expect reliable AIM connectivity,
> assuming my network and server are up to the task? Are there any AIM issues
> I should be wary of in recommending Jabber for a production environent
> in a Fortune 500 company?
> 
> We are very concerned about security. My client may be willing to help
> fund a code audit of the 1.4 release of the server, and of a Windows
> client. Is this something of interest to the Jabber development community?
> 
> Kevin Kadow
> MSG.Net, Inc.
> 
> > Thanks!  I _always_ like to be on the bleeding edge (even in production!)...
> > Makes life _real_ interesting! <g>
> >
> >> From: Peter Saint-Andre [mailto:stpeter at jabber.org]
> >>
> >> Hi Ted, 1.4 final is not out yet, we're only at 1.4pre1. See:
> >>
> >> http://dev.jabber.org/article.trp?id=49
> 
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