06.30.04
Jabber in Tiger Server?
In the words of Kyle’s Mom…
“wha-wha-wha-WHAT??!?”
If I’m reading this post at cubicgarden.com correctly, it looks like Apple will be putting a Jabber server into OS X 10.4 “Tiger” Server.
Points to remember here: Jabber is cool, open source IM that’s better than IRC.
Jabber server is a pain in the ass to A) install and B) maintain. Having OS X with this installed means that pains A and B are probably going to be resolved.
Jabber has ‘transports’ which are gateways to other systems such as AOL/AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, etc. A Jabber client ‘could’ be attached to any and all of these networks at once. (I’ve had this working a couple of times.)
iChat has “some” Jabber code in it. It’s used for the local area peer-to-peer connections. So this leads to…
iChat able to connect to more than just AIM people? Jabber able to do video chats? hmmm…..