Small Business IM Guide

It has been quite a while since I wrote an article on Vladville and some events during last week prompted me to take a second look at Jabber IM. Jabber is a free, open source, secure, standards-based instant messaging platform that to the untrained eye looks a lot like MSN, ICQ and AIM chat. Under the hood it has quite a bit of features not present in competitive IM implementations but for small business purposes it has two very unique points of interest: price and privacy.

By deploying Jabber IM server internally with Trillian client, small business can get a private, corporate IM system for less than $25. Given the price point (and setup complexity) of other technologies, Jabber is very hard to beat. Thats just my opinion however.

Here is a link to my guide, hopefully it can get you started with your own private IM world:
http://www.vladville.com/articles/smallbizim.asp