On 23/01/15 12:57, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> On 23.01.2015 12:06, Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
>
>> I suppose you're referring to 'written' chat.
> Yes!
>
>> At work, on a local
>> network, I'm using pidgin client with SIPE plugin
>> (x11-plugins/pidgin-sipe ). Works fine to chat with co-workers using
>> Microsoft Lync or Office Communicator. File transfer never worked,
>> though. The server side is Microsoft, I suppose, in any case out of my
>> reach.
> So I'd need an MS Server ? OK, they have those ... but I'd prefer a
> solution running on gentoo there.
>
> What about jabberd ... ? looking ... maybe I test that.
>
>
+1 for jabberd
you can both use pidgin
but if you want to you can even link XMPP server to his Microsoft Lync
Server.
this allows you to talk to be fully open source but also fully federated
with his company.
it also means if he is using Lync he doesn't need to do anything (after
the link is setup)
