Internal Corporate Messengers

[FROGGYJ]

We all know how dangerous MSN Messenger, Yahoo, AIM, etc...can be to our networks...although messaging services can be very convenient. Anyone have some suggestions for an internal corporate messaging system which is encrypted of course and enables logging?? I'm sure there are lots of products out there, just trying to get a feel from some people who actually use them.

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[dberg35]

Check out IBM's Sametime program it is internal as for logging I am not sure, but I think it does. The last place I worked used it and I liked it.

 

[Stevehewitt]

Same problem here. Cause we're MS partners we get certian technologies for free, including Live Communications Server which I'm planning on trialing Feb next year. If your a MS shop (Exchange, WinXP/Win2k3, SharePoint and Office) it's a no brainer - integration is superb.




Steve.

"They have the internet on computers now!" - Homer Simpson

 

[cameramonkey]

We Just started looking for the same animal, and found that Wildfire was the best out there. There is an open source version that is available for free, and an enterprise version that is VERY reasonably priced ($500 +$12/user) that adds quite a few features. They also license it per concurrent user, not per account so the licensing can be a bit more forgiving for some organizations.

http://www.jivesoftware.org/wildfire/

our deployment costs dropped from $13,000 (Microsoft's private IM) to $5,000. They are also working on a gateway piece that will allow your users to connect through to the public IM servers and still log the traffic. Its presently in beta, but appears to work pretty well from my limited tests.