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Something to track as Allie tries out another critical component of the small business intranet -- secure IM. If I'm right the product Allie refers to is Vista, a product of i3Connect. Here's what the company says:

Secure IM Solution for Small Business
This is a very cost effective secure instant messaging solution. It is designed such that it can be installed and maintained very easily. It is targeted at the rapidly growing corporate messaging solutions based on Linux (available Q4 2002) and NT servers. [...]

The company lists Jabber compatibility as well as all the public IM protocols. Looks like pricing starts at $500 for 50 users. I'm eager to see what Allie finds performance-wise.

Secure IM Solution for Small Business.
"Secure IM Solution for Small Business "
This looks very interesting. It seems like it is one, small, light-weight client for both IM and RSS news grazing. I am going to give it a try.
The product name is "Vista". [ Source: Allie Rogers' Radio Weblog]

PaSaMuF - P2P Document Management

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Recently I wondered out loud if there wasn't someone working on legitimate avenues for P2P. Specifically, I asked about small, decentralized collaborative editing and document management systems.

PaSaMuF is a filesharing system which indexes and shares common document types (Microsoft Word, Excel, PDF, HTML, XML, plain text, etc). Still under construction, PaSaMuF extracts information from the documents along with basic file metadata to ease searching. More in the project description:
The project goal is to implement a tool for sharing documents over the internet.
Unlike Gnutella or Morpheus, the tool is meant to be used by small communities to have a simple and reliable document sharing/ management solution that works cross-plattform.
The application will support common file formats like PDF, DOC, XML, etc. The system analyses those document types and extracts meta informations that are useful for other peers searching for documents.
As we do not want to reinvent the wheel, the system will use many commonly used software products available for free. [...]
(via InfoAnarchy) via [ Source: andersja's blog]

This is nice. It's probably geek central, and will be a long way from a commercial-ready product, but it's a start. And the stated goal to start with commonly-used components means this may not take too long to get rolling. Good stuff worth more investigation.

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