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There is continuing evidence that instant messaging is going to be the next big thing. Still too early to tell if it is something that companies want or it is just something that developers are trying to push.
At any rate, Oracle is jumping into the instant messaging arena by licencing Jabber's technology to work with its collaboration suite.
Jabber is the open source instant messaging technology. Like many companies, the developers have a product that is free and others that they sell.
For example, there is a commercial Jabber product for Windows and an open source Jabber product that runs on Linux.
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