[JDEV] Peer to peer Jabber streams

[Michael Wilson]

Sunir Shah wrote:
> Personally, I think any situation with a firewall that's going
> to block peer to peer communication is not interesting to this
> discussion. A conservative context like that won't be using
> Jabber for high-bandwidth applications (I hope).

(chuckles). Actually that situation would be quite common in
productivity-land. Remember we're usually talking about seperate
networks, applications and user departments with different
managers, policies and expectations. Jabber's flexibility
potentially makes it very suited to such a diverse environment
(especially with HTTP encapsulation for those times when the
customer is /still/ waiting for networks to open a hole in the
firewall) but as yet it's still a bit thin on features,
stability and scalability. Remember this isn't a case of going
up against things like ICQ and MSN messenger; take a look at
Lotus Sametime for an excellent (if expensive) realtime
collaborative tool.

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