Hey
guys,
I work at a large
company in Natick that has recently decided to disallow instant messaging
clients from being used on corporate PC's. They sight a concern that it is an
insecure network link to the outside world that could allow hackers, worms,
trojans, viruses, etc ... into the otherwise protected network. Whether I
agree with this opinion or not I guess is irrelevant as I don't have a strong
enough voice to change anything. What does affect my team is the ability to
easily communicate with each other on a "live" or instant platform within the
company firewall (we have no interest really to communicate outside the
firewall yet). I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of an
Open Source alternative to an instant messaging platform? For starters I'm
just looking for software to run on a server (either Linux or Doze) and the
associated clients to use on primarily XP or 2000
desktops.
I'm doing
some research on Source Forge and other sites to see if I can find
something myself, but would prefer a suggestion from someone who's already
implemented something like this.
Thanks in
advance.
Matthew