I've run into that myself, not exactly a situation of being forced to use Windows, but where it is actually the best environment for a certain purpose. In my experience, a VMWare instance with a handful of Linux and BSD virtual hosts can turn any decently large-memory Windows machine into a far more useful swiss army knife. VMWare Server is free software (free as in beer).
<br><br>Not sure of your specific requirements, but you should be able to save yourself the pain of compiling software written for unix in such unfamiliar territory.<br><br>-Kingdon<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/10/07,
<b class="gmail_sendername">R. P. Channing [Rick] Rodgers</b> <<a href="mailto:rodgers@nlm.nih.gov">rodgers@nlm.nih.gov</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
We are trying to do the same thing, so you might want to stay in touch.<br>The ANL Jabber<br>server is based on jabberd14, I believe, running on a Linux platform.<br>The problem at<br>our facility is that we are forced (yes, forced) to use PCs, we can not
<br>find a pre-built<br>binary for jabberd for Windows, and the build instructions for that<br>platform date from 2003<br>(we have not yet attempted a build). We experimented with the new<br>Java-based openfire<br>Jabber server, which appears to be more advanced than jabberd, and which
<br>is successfully<br>deployed to many platforms -- but sadly, the jabber client in the AG<br>toolkit does not appear<br>to inter-operate with openfire. Let's stay in touch, perhaps we can<br>collaborate on a solution.
<br><br>Cheers, Rick Rodgers<br><br>Eddy Diaz wrote:<br>><br>><br>><br>> Hi everybody.<br>><br>><br>><br>> Can someone say me, how do I do for install and configure my own<br>> jabber Server for chat in my Intranet?.
<br>><br>><br>><br>> Thanks.<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> Eddy Johel Diaz Murcia <a href="mailto:edd-diaz@uniandes.edu.co">edd-diaz@uniandes.edu.co</a><br>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:edd-diaz@uniandes.edu.co">
edd-diaz@uniandes.edu.co</a>><br>><br>> Estudiante de Maestría en Ingeniería de Sistemas y computación<br>><br>> Asistente graduado del Grupo IMAGINE Universidad de los Andes<br>><br>> Carrera 1 N° 18A-10 Bloque W, Bogotá, Colombia
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