Archive for January, 2007
Wildfire has been selected as a finalist for this year’s CODiE awards in the Best Communications Solution category. We’ll find out on April 17 just how much the judges like the most cutting-edge Open Source communications server on the market. Going through the judging process for awards can be time consuming, but they’re a […]
Earlier this week, I gave a talk at the Internet Telephony conference about next generation unified communication. You can check out the slides. A few caveats:
I didn’t pick the title of the talk and the ugly slide template was required.
There’s a lot of context missing without me talking, but at least you’ll get […]
Starting in 2003, we used to call our RTC server “Jive Messenger” — very clear, but not very exciting, and not much of a brand in and of itself. So we decided to rename in 2005. We went through a long process (including going out to the community) and ultimately ended up with “Wildfire” — […]
Today, the the Jabber Software Foundation announced that it’s now the XMPP Standards Foundation. Already, a lot of content has been moved to xmpp.org from jabber.org. The change is symbolic of much that’s happening with the protocol:
Explosive growth — Almost every week a new network or product seems to announce XMPP support (although we’re all […]
The first in the series of articles on how to write plugins for Wildfire and Spark.
About a month ago Thiago flew from his home in Brazil to Portland for an in-person visit with the rest of the team here at Jive. When Matt and I went out to the airport to pick him up we noticed long lines of fancy new vehicle presence sensors on the ceiling, one for each […]
With all the Apple news recently, as well as several new employees using Macs (including myself), I thought I’d write up a little update on what Jive is doing to improve how our products run on the Mac. There are a couple of areas where we’re making big strides forward:
Installation Experience
Most Mac applications are […]
Wildfire is up for an Enterprise Open Source Reader’s Choice Award in the “Best Open Source Product” category. As you can see from the current vote tally below, it’s time to get busy with the votes. So, please take a moment to go cast your vote for Wildfire!
Thanks to everyone for their continued interest in the new XIFF library. The release for the XIFF 3 Beta version in Actionscript 3 is still on its way.
In addition to the Actionscript 3 port, the new library was developed with AS 3.0 best practices in mind and will contain a few new features that will […]
At Jive there are quite a few “Battlestar Galactica” fans, but I had not watched the show before this weekend. When my wife received the season one DVD set over the holidays, it was a chance to find out what all the buzz was about. The show is awesome so far, but one scene in […]
