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Open Source Instant Messaging Marches on Mobile
MBizCentral
12/21/2000
DENVER (MBIZ) -- The quest to shift the world of instant messaging to an open source platform continued to spill into the mobile space with two recent announcements.
Jabber.com Inc., a subsidiary of Webb Interactive Services Inc. (Nasdaq: WEBB), announced that it will integrate its instant messaging technology with Simplewire Inc.'s wireless messaging technology.
Jabber.com also announced previously that PocketLinux developer Transvirtual Technologies Inc. integrated the Jabber protocol into its platform, which serves as an operating system for PDAs, cellular phones and other wireless devices.
Jabber.com provides commercial support for the open source, XML-based instant messaging protocol of the same name, similar to how Sun Microsystems or Red Hat provide commercial support for the open source UNIX operating system.
The open source nature of the Jabber protocol allows for a broad development community. Because it's XML-based, the protocol allows instant messaging between disparate machines across different landline and wireless networks.
The pair of announcements provide the Jabber, the protocol and the company, with inroads to the mobile environment.
"Wireless messaging, device-to-device communication and application-to-application messaging are some of the largest growth sectors we see for instant messaging applications as we enter 2001. Many predict that wireless instant messaging will outpace desktop instant messaging by 2003 as devices such as the Palm VII and wireless services such as OmniSky popularize wireless devices in the consumer space," Andre Durand, founder of Jabber.com, said in a statement.
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