[JDEV] What does een IM system need to reach the end user (Was: Re: [JDEV] Poll about who will use Jabber when Trillian comes out)

[Dave Smith]

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On Wednesday, Jun 11, 2003, at 14:34 America/Denver, 
maqi at jabberstudio.org wrote:

> As with the whole Jabber philosophy, we don't need a "big jabber.org
> community site", we need several smaller sites with good setups - I 
> think
> of a *good* WWW presentation of the major Jabber servers with some 
> extras
> such as customized client downloads or WWW integration of the 
> persistent
> chat rooms or something. This is rather easy to set up but no-one does
> it...

It's not cheap to host a "central" Jabber server. So far, we've been 
lucky -- good people have donated bandwidth for jabber.org, we've used 
what monies the JSF has gotten to purchase a few machines. Even so, 
we're pretty limited in terms of the amount of hardware available to 
throw at hosting a big Jabber server of the size that people want.

  Besides, the whole _point_ of the Jabber project is that there should 
be a host  (pardon the pun) of decentralized Jabber servers, like email.

My $0.02.

D.
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