FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Jive Software Sponsors Jabber Software Foundation
Partnership to Further Define and Promote XMPP Standard
Denver, CO and New York, NY - April 30, 2003 - The Jabber Software Foundation (<www.jabber.org>), the non-profit organization that manages open application protocols built on top of the IETF's Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), and Jive Software (<www.jivesoftware.com>), a leading provider of software for collaboration and knowledge management, today announced Jive Software's sponsorship of the Foundation to promote XMPP and Jabber as standard protocols for instant messaging (IM) and group chat, and to foster interoperability between XMPP/Jabber implementations.
As part of this partnership, Jive Software will provide financial support and development time to help the Jabber Software Foundation create an open standards body for the development, promotion, and testing of XMPP/Jabber protocols and technology. This will help the Foundation achieve its goals of ensuring compatibility between XMPP/Jabber implementations, developing new standards, and promoting XMPP/Jabber technology in a wide range of venues.
"The Jabber community has already benefited from contributions by key individuals at Jive Software," noted Peter Saint-Andre, Executive Director of the Jabber Software Foundation. "We look forward to formalizing that relationship, especially in the area of compliance testing, to help solidify XMPP/Jabber as the emerging standard for near-real-time messaging."
"We believe strongly that a common, open IM/chat standard will unite the currently fragmented IM landscape, allowing communication between all people on the Internet," said Iain Shigeoka, Jive Software's Chief XMPP Engineer. "Vendors can then concentrate on adding valuable services on top of IM rather than in trying to bridge between open and proprietary networks."
Jive Software joins existing sponsors such as IBM and Hitachi in supporting the JSF's work on XMPP/Jabber. To learn more about the benefits of sponsorship, visit <www.jabber.org/sponsors/>.
About the XMPP Standards Foundation
The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) builds open protocols for presence, instant messaging, and real-time communication and collaboration on top of the IETF's Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), and also provides information and infrastructure to the worldwide community of Jabber/XMPP developers, service providers, and end users. Widely considered the lingua franca of instant messaging, XMPP is an Internet standard for presence, real-time messaging, and streaming Extensible Markup Language (XML) data that grew out of the popular Jabber open-source technologies first released in 1999. With approval of XMPP by the IETF in 2004, the XSF continues to develop XMPP extensions that meet the needs of its many stakeholders: open-source and commercial developers (including Apple, HP, Nokia, and Sun), organizations large and small (including the U.S. defense establishment and most Wall Street investment banks), Internet and mobile service providers (including Google, NTT, Portugal Telecom, Twitter, and Facebook), and an estimated 50+ million end users worldwide.
For further information, visit <http://www.xmpp.org/> or contact XSF Executive Director Peter Saint-Andre.
About Jive Software
Jive Software was founded in 2001 by the creators of CoolServlets.com to provide enterprises with advanced collaboration software. Jive Software now provides applications and services for online support environments that allow people to self-support or collaborate with other users. Jive Software has over 500 customers, including IBM, Sun, Oracle, BEA and Shell. Jive Software is based in New York City and can be found online at <www.jivesoftware.com>.