On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Andrew Wafaa
I'd like us to think about XMPP/Jabber. I know we briefly discussed it in -project (at least Pascal, Stephan, a few others & myself did).
To summarise the discussion we had, it was decided that having a medium available with no-one present was pointless and counter productive. One big advantage that XMPP has is thatt corporate firewalls are more likely to allow the traffic through where as IRC is blocked by default. It is also possible to bridge between XMPP & IRC thus giving people a way of joining the regular medium.
Corporate firewalls tend to adapt to restrict the choices of how employees spend their hours. IRC is more or less universally banned, but the larger corporations ban just about everything that has the potential to waste peoples' time or expose the corporate IT infrastructure to threats. So while there may be a temporary advantage to XMPP, I wouldn't count on it staying that way. Nor would I expect corporate policies to suddenly reverse direction and become more forgiving of non-corporate-goal-seeking behavior. :) -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://www.linkedin.com/in/edborasky I've never met a happy clam. In fact, most of them were pretty steamed. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org