Technology Choices: MOO vs Jabber vs Messenger

[Rick Stevens]

In my email the table is mundged.

At 08:32 AM 9/13/2002 -0500, Ivan R. Judson wrote:

>Here's another choice that might make design and implementation of 2.0
>faster if we all agree: MOO or Jabber or ???.
>
>The obvious three choices are MOO, Jabber and Messenger:
>
>Messenger                               MOO
>Jabber
>---------                               ---
>------
>Extensible (SDK)                        Extensible (OSS)
>Extensible (OSS)
>Windows/Mac/-Linux              Windows/Mac/Linux
>Windows/Mac/Linux
>Secured with Passport           Integrated security     Modular Security
>options
>
>SASL integration
>
>GSI available
>Server unavailable              Server Open Source      Server Open
>Source
>Integrated with CXP             tkSchmooze!                     No
>Multimedia yet
>Deployable (only client)        Deployable
>Deployable
>
>It seems to me that Jabber offers mostly the benefit of providing 80% of
>the MOO functionality (it doesn't currently support topology or the MOO
>style command set), but in a more modern solution. The architecture is
>similar to what we're discussing for 2.0, and again, it's able to
>integrate with our security choice of GT2.0.
>
>Thoughts?
>
>--Ivan
>
>..........
>Ivan R. Judson .~. http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~judson
>Futures Laboratory .~.  630 252 0920
>Argonne National Laboratory .~. 630 252 6424 Fax
>