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IM Survey and curiosity


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I was reading an article about the choice of the IBB (International Broadcasting Bureau that handle things like Voice of America and Radio Free Asia broadcasts) and their recent need to restrict consumer IM access and move to a standard.  They found that after turning off access to the consumer IM that employees, well they basically threw a fit.

So the IBB went and looked at enterprise grade IM.  After much soul searching they chose Bantu's Enterprise Instant Messaging (according to the article due to their 'experience' with government like the Army and Navy.  I thought they used Sametime but that is another topic).  Now the next step was decide if the server should be internal or hosted.  They chose hosted from Bantu.

So that brings me to the point, I read the Osterman Research reports and participate in them constantly.  But I wanted a mini-survey on just us Domino geeks (and the few others that read my blog).  So....post your replies and I will group the results.

  • Have you standardized on an IM package?
  • Is the package run in house or hosted?
  • Do you allow consumer products on the network still?
  • Do you filter the consumer IM products in any way?
  • Do you log or archive any chat communications?