The Messenger: An Interview with Jabber’s Creator, Jeremie Miller
Jabber stands on the brink of becoming a general-purpose mechanism for allowing people, devices, and programs to interact. How will it play with .NET? Jeremie Miller, Jabber’s inventor, offers his thoughts.
Jabber began as a way to link ICQ and AOL instant messaging. Now it stands on the brink of becoming a general-purpose mechanism for allowing people, devices, and programs to interact. How will Jabber play with Microsoft’s .NET initiative? What about AOL? Jeremie Miller, Jabber’s inventor, offers his thoughts.
The cornfields of Cascade, Iowa are a long way from Silicon Valley, but this quiet farming community of 2,500 is now headquarters to the development effort behind open source’s most popular instant messaging server: Jabber. Actually, Jabber HQ is a third-generation corn farm just outside of town, where Miller leads the development effort from his home office. Originally written as an XML-based server that could swap instant messages between the proprietary formats of AOL and MSN, Jabber has recently caught the attention of some major corporations — Disney and France Telecom to name two — and in 1999 Miller co-founded a company, Jabber.com, to sell a commercial version of his messaging server.
According to Miller, online chat is only the beginning. The way he sees it, Jabber could be used to swap data between applications and devices as well as people, and that could make it one of open source’s most important applications in the emerging Internet. Robert…
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