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Instant Messaging Client - Spring 2008

This product/technology evaluation team will evaluate current secure instant messaging clients.

Specific deliverables will include testing against the University's central Jabber server and other campus Jabber servers as appropriate based on team interest, along with evaluation of the user interface and ease of configuration.

Team Information

Team Process

The Team Wiki Page includes process and results.

Team Results

Supported Clients:

MacOS X
  • iChat
  • Adium
Windows
  • Pidgin

The Evaluation Team elected to recommend only Supported clients (as opposed to "Recommended and Supported") as this was Penn's first formal evaluation of IM technology and we feel there will be significant change and development in the IM workd in the coming year. We recommend another IM Evaluation team next year to assess the current status of the field and make further recommendations.

Documentation

Please see the Team Wiki Page for documentation and configuration information.

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