Hi, this is a question related to the intranet thread. Does anyone of you have any good examples or experiences of good realtime chat or whiteboard applications that could be used with Zope? If you have been using something, what has been the setup and how has it worked. Here are some thougths without the whiteboard. 1) IRC-server + java irc-client This could be a nice way of doing things. Company's internal irc-server and you could connect into it via browser - or instant messenger that support IRC. Server would throw logs into the Zope and archive those in similar fashion like blog entrys. Whiteboard could then be another application ,applet, that only does the whiteboard part of it. IRC benefits is the possibility to use also other clients than browser and take part into discussions even though you are also doing something else. Bots etc. are also nice bonus, since engineers could write AI bots that diagree to everything and agree to payraise discussions ,-) Questions: - Good and easy to maintain irc-servers? - Good java irc-client? 2) Jabber Is this a dead idea? Iäm not that familiar with Jabber that I could actually say anything - but there seem to be a lot of people exited about Jabber. For me the instant messaging has never been anything important and in this application Jabber would be used in a conference mode - which is just like irc. And there is jabber.py library to access Jabber from python. Whiteboards and chats: ---------------------- I just downlaoded BabylonChat from ( http://www.visopsys.org/andy/babylon/index.html ) and was instantly impressed about it. It is written in Java, seems to work and can be used as an applet or application. I saw other software also on freshmeat and did some searches on google. Seems that chat and whiteboard are very popular terms in many pages. Now my question is, does anybody else use some other application for the same thing? What are your experiences? Others: http://www.duke.edu/~java20/jaws/ http://www.webponent.com/ - Commecial approx. $250 What else? ps. watching Sphere DVD now. Somehow there is a underwater / alien theme going on in the movies I take to my hands from my DVD-shelves. ,-) -huima