[JDEV] History and future of JOSL Jabber

[Michael S. Coulman]

Esteemed colleagues,

I'm using the public domain Jabber server (1.4.2) as a back end for a
messaging client.  The organization paying for the client has decided
that a commercial Jabber license is too expensive.  Further, one of
the corporate muckety-mucks says that the public domain server is
largely garbage --discarded code from the commercial server that is
not actively maintained.

Personally, I've used the server long enough to know this is not the
case, but my experience alone is insufficient to counter the
derogatory comments (above).

Can an authoritative source point me to resources concerning the past
and future development plans for the public domain Jabber server,
and/or provide commentary to counter the negative commentary (above)?

TIA,

-- 
Mike