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[Justin Karneges]

On Thursday 15 April 2004 7:51 am, Vasuprada Kodati wrote:
>   hello all,
> let me know the advantages and disadvantages of jabber over other IMs

For IM?

Advantages:
  Many clients to choose from, all no less official than another
  Distributed architecture (if one server goes down, the rest keep going)
  Secure (encryption available, run your own private server, etc)
  Limitless expansion (many neat things are possible with Jabber these days)
  Better multi-user conferencing than IRC

Disadvantages:
  Not well known, not as many users
  Slow development (most Jabber efforts have limited funding)
  File transfer not widely implemented
  No audio/video integration standard (ie, voicechat)
  Nothing available analogous to http://www.icq.com/
  Many fringe features found in the Big 4 are not yet in any Jabber client

-Justin