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Free/Cheap and Customizable business messnger?

by Dec 2, 2011 12:21AM PST

I've been using squiggle lan messenger and love it; but the problem is our staff is starting to become more and more mobile. I basically want the same thing but that allows us to be on different networks. I really don't want to use yahoo, gtalk, aim, skype, etc as those appear very unprofessional and people become sidetracked with personal contacts. I want a very simple messnger/chat system for my staff and I. I have a domain and storage so I could host it myself... I'm open to ideas.

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Twitter?
by Forum moderator Dec 2, 2011 4:19AM PST

I know it's limited to 147 characters, but if all you want is simple messaging then that might fit the bill.

Not that I've used it myself. May be others here will have better ideas.

Mark

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Jabber
by Dec 2, 2011 4:37AM PST

Have a look at Jabber. You can have it on your server. There are different versions of it so do a bit of investigating.

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Lync?
by Forum moderator Dec 4, 2011 5:23AM PST
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