Open Source Real-Time Collaboration Server: OpenFire
Openfire is an open source real time collaboration (RTC) server that enables anyone to create communication environments like MSN Messenger, GTalk, etc.
With an easy to setup-administer yet rock-solid security-performance system, OpenFire uses the most popular instant messaging protocol: XMPP (Jabber).
The application can run on both Windows & Linux/Unix servers and it comes with various plugins like "content filtering", "user export/import" & more.
OpenFire provides all the tools to keep the communication under control & helps you concentrate on the tools "users/members" can use. And, Igniterealtime (the same community) has solutions for that too like SparkWeb (open source web-based IM client) or Spark (open source IM client).
Website: http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/inde...
Download: http://www.igniterealtime.org/downloads/index.jsp
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Jabber MSN
- Filed under: Extras, GPL License, Tools
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2 Responses for "Open Source Real-Time Collaboration Server: OpenFire"
OpenFire is a great turn key solution for a XMPP / Jabber server. However, I’d caution anyone from adopting it until the community is jump started again. Jive Software recently stopped supporting it commercially, but has yet to allow the open-source commnity arround it to take over maintenance. As a result several critical bugs have gone unfixed for 6-8 months now. Some fixes for this exist as patches, but releases are still controlled by Jive.
This installs and goes through the setup process smoothly, but once thats all done, I cant actually log in to the admin panel!
I have tried every idea in the community forums from re-doing setup, to modifying the mysql manually, to adding admin in the xml file. Nothing works.
So if you’re looking for an open source collaboration server, this does look promising but it’s not ready yet.