Lotus had adopted the SIMPLE protocol early in its branching off from SIP, and it still a work in progress.  Now, like many others, Lotus has adopted XMPP, the protocol behind Jabber as well.  This means that there is yet another mainstream product that is interoperable with other XMPP-based services, including APU IM and Google Talk.

Source:  http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2068781,00.asp

It appears as though more of the industry is waking up to Presence Being the Killer App. With Jabber Inc. being a leader in this space. Jabber, Inc., which develops real-time communication server platforms for developing IM and presence-enabled applications, is fashioning its XCP platform into an application server of sorts not only for presence, but also for messaging, routing and XML-application development. In September, it will release a publish-and-subscribe technology called Information Broker for pushing content out to users.

Interesting too, is the increase in adoption of Enterprise IM (EIM) and consequent integration of presence in business applications. A recent Osterman Research study shows 44% of companies use IM with business applications, up from 21% just three years ago. Furthermore, 34% of users have standardized on an internally run IM platform, up from 24% just two years ago.

Jabber Inc. is has announced new versions of its commercial Jabber server and client.

Was curious as to where the Psi Jabber Client was in implementing the complete XMPP 1.0 protocol now that it has become a proposed standard by the IETF. The feature that is most lacking in Psi, is Multi User Chat (MUC) or JEP-0045. The older Groupchat protocol is supported, but lacking are advanced features such as moderation and creating and maintaining persistent rooms.

The Psi Development Roadmap has a definte plan for completing the XMPP 1.0 implementation and MUC support

There is also a MUC Feature Status Page where you can monitor progress on this feature.

Jabber, Inc. has announced a suite of wireless clients for RIM, PocketPC, Smartphone, Symbian and J2ME devices, as well as gateways for WAP and SMS.

Apparently they are currently available for testing, but will be released April 1st.

See the Press Release.

Jabber has announced the availability of a new major release of their eXtensible Communcations Platform, XCP 3.0.

New Features

• improved hooks for standard SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) monitoring
• support for SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer)
• internationalization features that make XCP ready for localization out-of-the-box
• a graphical controller for configuring the Jabber XCP server

The story was announced yesterday, but I still don't see the files available on our support page. So I can't read the more detailed release notes. I am curious as to how much of the XMPP Core and XMPP IM IETF Proposed Standards they comply with.