I am looking for an open source instant chat messenger for Office purposes.
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What exactly do you mean by "Office purpose"?– Sasha ChedygovJan 10, 2011 at 7:15
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What operating system are you using?– Daniel Beck ♦Jan 10, 2011 at 8:04
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Remember that depending on your country, your employer, and your employment contract, use of office internet for private chats might get you fired.– Daniel Beck ♦Jan 10, 2011 at 8:05
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1I want to use in Office only and it should connect to office LAN only. I need for Windows XP, 7– meetpdJan 10, 2011 at 9:21
3 Answers
Try Pidgin; as far as I know it's the go-to open source option.
It supports both server-based messaging as well as the serverless Bonjour protocol, so if you don't need or want to set up an IM server, Pidgin will still work.
In our company we use OpenFire, it's opensource works fine.
This is only a solution if you're a network administrator and it's a company or department wide solution you need.
It's free LAN Messenger with many facilities available. Check this out. Also it has web management console for users, groups etc.,