[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)

[Mattias Campe]

maqi at jabberstudio.org wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Mattias Campe wrote:
> 
> 
>>-) Multiprotocol:
>>*client-side* support for AIM, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, Jabber
> 
> Certainly users don't care whether the legacy protocols are implemented
> server or client side.

True, they don't care how it's done, but they do care about the 
functionality that is offered. Although I never implemented a 
(server-side) transport, I looks hard to me to offer MSN video chat, 
file transfer,... because it looks peer-to-peer to me. So, those 
features look more easy to implement client-side

[...]

> 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...

... probably because of the lack of time and money to host a *good* 
website (no problem for me to have webhosting, but without php and mysql 
it won't be managable).

regards,
Mattias