[Publib] Meebo and IM

[Leo Robert Klein]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olorin <vesper555 at yahoo.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 9:48 AM
> To: Publib email group
> Subject: RE: [Publib] Meebo and IM
> 
> It's been my experience that "free" services are not
> free.  The price paid in spyware, spam, banner ads and
> general security would not IMO be appropriate for a
> business environment...

Well, the important thing isn't "free" or "unfree" but functionality.

No matter how much money you spend on an IM system, the requirements 
need to be:

- communicate using several protocols at once (e.g. MSM, Yahoo, AIM, etc.)
- be as invisible as possible to your user

This isn't a case of the library choosing a system and then waiting for 
its users to fall in line - we tried that and it doesn't work.

Meebo or Trillian may meet these requirements far better than anything 
you can pay for.

LEO

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