[JDEV] The Important Things

[Michael F Lin]

The end-user technology is not compelling enough yet to make average users
of the big IM services come over to form a critical mass of Jabber users,
regardless of what their ISPs say. I suspect that we would have difficulty
at this point supporting that many users; relative to the other services,
Jabber tends to be more complex and has a considerable learning curve of
its own. But we are finding new metaphors in our clients; our protocol and
server software is evolving; and we as a community are slowly learning our
strengths and weaknesses so that we can capitalize and anticipate.

It may take a months or years, I gamble that when Jabber starts to catch on
in the mainstream, it won't just catch on, it will explode. The big
services won't know what hit them, and we probably won't know what hit us
either.

-Mike



                                                                                                                                       
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IMHO, The most important thing is to get the ISPs to offer you Instant
Messaging Accounts along with your POP accounts AND for companies to use
their own IM servers (can be co-hosted) like email.

Jabber is designed for this but I cannot find any ISPs offering Jabber as a
service either to consumers or companies.

Can someone explain - Why ?

Regards,
Ashvil

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Bauer" <bauer at michaelbauer.com>
To: <jdev at jabber.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 6:18 AM
Subject: [JDEV] The Important Things


>
> Kind of picking up on my own thread, what exactly are the important
> things?
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> B)
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