Cool Software: Spark and Wildfire – Enterprise IM client and server
One thing we use at work is a Jabber server–JabberD–to facilitate communication. For the most part, it works great. However, today, I found, via a discussion on Javalobby, what looks to be a much better server and a very nice client. The server is “Wildfire”:http://www.jivesoftware.org/wildfire and the client is “Spark”:http://www.jivesoftware.org/spark, both by “Jive Software”:http://www.jivesoftware.org/.
I have played with the server a little bit and the two nicest things about are that it is open source and it has a really nice web interface for configuration (no more xml config files). The client reminds me a lot of Google’s talk client. Both are very simple and clean in their design.
The only problem is that I just set up a new jabberd server and I am not sure everyone will be willing to switch again, oh well.