[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)

[Adrian Rapa]

Pe Wed, 11 Jun 2003 23:38:19 +0200
Mattias Campe <mattias.campe at UGent.be> a scris:

> 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).


i can offer free webhosting on a high bandwith as long as it will not be
an comercial website... with all you need... maybe i can afford to put
the machine too.. also it is a small posibility...