---
title: "Company-Wide Instant Messaging with Jabberd"
description: "<p><a href="http://erans.blogspot.com/2006/01/jabber-servers-supporting-dialback.html"><strong>Continuing</strong></a> <a href="http://erans.blogspot.com/2006/01/someone-heard-my-call-google-talk.html"><strong>my current fixation</strong></a> about <a href="http://www.jabber.org/"><strong>Jabber</strong></a> and Jabber related stuff (it all started with <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/open-federation-for-google-talk.html"><strong>this</strong></a> <a href="http://googletalk.blogspot.com/2006/01/xmpp-federation.html"><strong>post</strong></a> about how <a href="http://www.google.com/"><strong>Google</strong></a> is openning up <a href="http://talk.google.com/"><strong>Google Talk</strong></a> to talk with other Jabber based servers), there is a <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/10/06/jabberd.html"><strong>good article</strong></a> up on <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/"><strong>O’Relly’s OnLamp.com</strong></a> about the pros and cons of a Company-Wide Instant Messaging solutions as well as how to setup Jabberd 2.x to do just that.</p>
<p>It’s really worth the read for people that are trying to figure out how to utilize an IM solution in their company while still retaining a high degree of security.</p>"
doc_version: "1"
last_updated: "2017-06-02"
date: 2006-01-21
tags: [Google Talk, GTalk, IM, Instant Messaging, Jabber, Jabberd]
canonical: "https://eran.sandler.co.il/2006/01/21/company-wide-instant-messaging-with-jabberd/"
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[**Continuing**][1] [**my current fixation**][2] about [**Jabber**][3] and Jabber related stuff (it all started with [**this**][4] [**post**][5] about how [**Google**][6] is openning up [**Google Talk**][7] to talk with other Jabber based servers), there is a [**good article**][8] up on [**O&#8217;Relly&#8217;s OnLamp.com**][9] about the pros and cons of a Company-Wide Instant Messaging solutions as well as how to setup Jabberd 2.x to do just that.

It&#8217;s really worth the read for people that are trying to figure out how to utilize an IM solution in their company while still retaining a high degree of security.

Go. Read. Implement.

 [1]: http://erans.blogspot.com/2006/01/jabber-servers-supporting-dialback.html
 [2]: http://erans.blogspot.com/2006/01/someone-heard-my-call-google-talk.html
 [3]: http://www.jabber.org/
 [4]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/open-federation-for-google-talk.html
 [5]: http://googletalk.blogspot.com/2006/01/xmpp-federation.html
 [6]: http://www.google.com/
 [7]: http://talk.google.com/
 [8]: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/10/06/jabberd.html
 [9]: http://www.onlamp.com/