Late last month I completed our transition from our jabberd server to JiveSoftware’s Wildfire EIM Server for the the company that I work for.

Wildfire, which is free and open source, is extremely robust in its capabilities. The server, which uses Java, runs on Linux, Windows, and OS X.

Some of the things that initially drew me to the product was its use of LDAP for authentication integration and roster information, the use of SSL between client and server, and it’s growing user community.

If you think that you might be interested in deploying an EIM server at your company, you should definitely take a look at Wildfire.

I’ll cover some configuration gotchas and solutions that I ran into next time around.