[Zope] Good realtime chat / whiteboard applications to be used with Zope?

[Jens Vagelpohl]

> Questions:
> - Good and easy to maintain irc-servers?

the bog-standard open source IRC servers that are used all over the 
internet are usually "fire and forget". you configure and start the server 
and it runs and that's the end of it.


> - Good java irc-client?

why java? most if not all jave clients are unstable and clunky. why not 
just instruct people do download and use a *real* IRC client for their 
platform? ok, you might lose the convenient "user clicks here on the 
intranet and the java client fires up and does the right thing", but how 
important is that compared to all those issues that you will come up 
against, inevitably, with java client, such as::

- instability
- platform compatibility/browser compatibility

jens