Rocket Chat vs. Jabber
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There are tons of Jabber/XMPP servers out there. I think OpenFire is the best known.
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I haven't used either rocket.chat or OpenFire in production. So I can't really comment on those. I will say that rocket.chat seems to more akin to a chatroom style system then OpenFire which is pretty much direct IM.
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@coliver said:
I haven't used either rocket.chat or OpenFire in production. So I can't really comment on those. I will say that rocket.chat seems to more akin to a chatroom style system then OpenFire which is pretty much direct IM.
That is a good analysis.
If you want IM stuff, use openFire or another XMPP server.
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@dafyre said:
@coliver said:
I haven't used either rocket.chat or OpenFire in production. So I can't really comment on those. I will say that rocket.chat seems to more akin to a chatroom style system then OpenFire which is pretty much direct IM.
That is a good analysis.
If you want IM stuff, use openFire or another XMPP server.
Although it looks like rocket.chat does allow for direct messages it just doesn't seem like that is the intended function of it.
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@BBigford said:
I've read that Jabber is free
Jabber is the old name of the XMPP protocol. It's an open protocol.
There are tons of Jabber servers. Google Talk and OpenFire are the main players.
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@coliver said:
Jabber, the application, is not.
Real Jabber is free. We ran the Jabber Daemon for years before OpenFire was around. Cisco Jabber always has to be Cisco Jabber and isn't Jabber, ever.
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@coliver said:
Although it looks like rocket.chat does allow for direct messages it just doesn't seem like that is the intended function of it.
Rocket.chat is a clone of Slack. Slack is built to be a direct replacement for Jabber/XMPP as well as IRC, all in one. It goes after the Skype, Lync / Skype for Business and similar space. It tries to do a lot. Rocket.chat goes after the IM market just as much as OpenFire does, but it goes after the group chat functionality as well in a way that the rest never really do.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
Although it looks like rocket.chat does allow for direct messages it just doesn't seem like that is the intended function of it.
Rocket.chat is a clone of Slack. Slack is built to be a direct replacement for Jabber/XMPP as well as IRC, all in one. It goes after the Skype, Lync / Skype for Business and similar space. It tries to do a lot. Rocket.chat goes after the IM market just as much as OpenFire does, but it goes after the group chat functionality as well in a way that the rest never really do.
That's good to know.
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We use Cisco Jabber since we have the licensing, but it really isn't that great. It's pretty basic but gets the job done. It reminds me of messengers from 10 years ago. Not alot of features, you have to add users to your friend list one at a time. It does work well, but the features are dated and limited.
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@IRJ said:
We use Cisco Jabber since we have the licensing, but it really isn't that great.
That was redundant
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@IRJ said:
We use Cisco Jabber since we have the licensing, but it really isn't that great. It's pretty basic but gets the job done. It reminds me of messengers from 10 years ago. Not alot of features, you have to add users to your friend list one at a time. It does work well, but the features are dated and limited.
We use AIM still here... we have licenses for Cisco Jabber but it is not in production.
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Oh and Cisco Jabber is quite complicated like all Cisco stuff
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Why isn't my network entirely Linux based? Can anyone tell me?
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@wirestyle22 said:
Why isn't my network entirely Linux based? Can anyone tell me?
Smokey the Bear has the answer... Only you can prevent Windows deployments.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@wirestyle22 said:
Why isn't my network entirely Linux based? Can anyone tell me?
Smokey the Bear has the answer... Only you can prevent Windows deployments.
This is why everyone tells me I have dead eyes.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@wirestyle22 said:
Why isn't my network entirely Linux based? Can anyone tell me?
Smokey the Bear has the answer... Only you can prevent Windows deployments.
Haha classic!
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So what does everyone else use? I know SAM has a Rocket setup mixed with SfB that is not being used, instead just using Skype... coliver is using AIM still. Anyone else using an on-premise solution? Preferably free & open source.
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@BBigford said:
So what does everyone else use? I know SAM has a Rocket setup mixed with SfB that is not being used, instead just using Skype... coliver is using AIM still. Anyone else using an on-premise solution? Preferably free & open source.
Smoke signals--however the cool thing is we use coloring so you can differentiate the clouds.
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I forgot to add.. preferably something that we can use to pull from Active Directory without extreme difficulty. I can allocate some time to this project, but I'm looking for something that has a fairly small footprint and doesn't require tons of time to setup (basically, the opposite of SfB).
