[dev] Fwd: Re: [rakim] Instant Messanger style chat?

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

I can see it as a convenience Horde service, maybe... not sure.

----- Forwarded message from horde at apixels.net -----
    Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 11:04:55 -0700 (PDT)
    From: Jeremy Oddo <horde at apixels.net>
Reply-To: Jeremy Oddo <horde at apixels.net>
 Subject: Re: [rakim] Instant Messanger style chat?
      To: Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>


>> Also, is it even possible to pop up a browser window that's "initiated"
>> by another computer...
>
> No. But through the magic of server-side scripting, you can tell person
> b's computer, when it refreshes a status script, that it has a message
> and should open a window.
>
Oh, boy...already over my head :(

Oh well.  Let me at least tell you why I was thinking that would help our
company out.  I work for a studio in Southern California doing visual
effects for movies.  We are currently look at expanding the studio.
Communication is critical in this environment when you have possibly five
or six people working on one shot.  If we balloon the studio up and take
over, say 20,000 sq. ft., we need a quick way to communicate with each
other.  IM seems to be a good option.  The users already have a main
system login and an e-mail login.  I wanted to avoid needed to make an IM
login as well.  I'm interested in Horde as all modules can authenticate
against the mail log in, and thus, I don't have to have thirty different
login accounts for people.

Maybe I'll have to kick this stuff around for a bit.

Thanks,
Jeremy



----- End forwarded message -----


-chuck

--
Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck at horde.org>
The alligators were there, too, in a bathtub inside the house.