[jdev] Re: IM history

[Cathayan]

Hi, friends, 

there is also a proprietary protocol - QQ, in China but not mentioned
on wikipedia or anywhere else except chinese community. it is very
successful in China and they said they have 350 million registered
users till now. of course, many users have many id. anyway, they are
the top 1 im service in China on a 87million internet users base.

QQ had been introduced to public on 1997 or so, with a name OpenICQ.
and then, the isreal company ICQ gave them a lawyer letter, then they
changed their name to QQ. Because ICQ and MSN don't have any chinese
version clients for years, and also because china telecom charge
different fees on demestic internet - which had been cheaper - and
"foreign" internet(this policy is over now, but a simular policy is
still exist on CERNET, which owns a big part of chinese internet
users, college students.), QQ got a very success. and now, it has more
features than MSN and many young people stick on it all day. in 2004,
QQ got a income of 400million RMB - about 50million USD.

but along with it's success, the abuse became more severe. so, many
people switch to MSN. and some linux guys to Jabber. but it is still
the top 1.

some chinese internet portals have their own IMs, but not very
successful. and tom.com announced a cooperation with skype last 2
months.


On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 15:31:44 +0100, Jens Mikkelsen <gyldenskjold at mail.dk> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Thanks for the answers. Good thing I'm not working with MSN Messenger.
> ;o)
> 
> On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 15:23, Richard Dobson wrote:
> > > There are other open IM protocols designed around SIP.  See for example
> > > RFC3428 and SIMPLE
> > > (http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/simple-charter.html).
> > >
> > > ICQ and AIM use an AOL proprietary protocol known as OSCAR.
> > >
> > > MSN Messenger uses a proprietary protocol known as MSNP.  However, Windows
> > > Messenger uses SIMPLE.
> >
> > Actually Windows Messenger uses both MSNP and SIMPLE depending on who you
> > are talking to, some older versions of Windows/MSN Messenger can also use
> > RVP which is an old IM protocol used in Exchange 2000.
> >
> > Richard
> >
> >
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