Instant messenger at work

[CivicFan]

I am thinking about implementing an instant messenger program at work. The default suggestion is to use Windows Live Messenger.

Needless to say, I do not like the idea of using a Microsoft product.

If you guys use instant messenger at work, which product do you use and are you happy with it?

 

[Chris Meutsch]

Google Chat.

 

[CivicFan]

how would I argue that Google Chat is better than the Outlook Lync 2010 add-in?

 

[bepperb]

"office communicator" is fantastic. Allows remote control of desktops, single signon with Windows. Besides those two features I guess it's the same as anything else. Hard to make an IM good or bad.

 

[Quattro Pete]

At my previous work place, we used Skype, and not just for messaging. We would also call employees in other countries to save money.

 

[Food Scientist]

We use Microsoft Office Communicator - no problems as of yet with about 1 year of use

 

[Geauxtiger]

Office communicator installed on 55,000 PC's in our company. Works great.

 

[Brons2]

Microsoft Office Communicator here also. We are going to transition to Lync in 6 to 9 months.

 

[rationull]

We run a Jabber/XMPP server. There are tons of clients available for that but most of us use Pidgin (used to be GAIM) on Windows. I've used Adium with it on my Mac although I really use Windows 100% of the time for my real work.

 

[ToyotaNSaturn]

I run Openfire open source for our dept.

Microsoft OCS is realy good, we use it corporatelly.

 

[greenaccord02]

We use skype to a certain extent. We've also tried Novell Messenger (because we already had a license and it was free) but it pretty much sucked.