Denver, CO — (press release excerpt) — Jabber.com today announced that the Jabber Open Source Project has surpassed 50 active sub-projects, all focused on extending functionality of the Jabber real-time XML instant messaging platform. The accelerated growth is attributed to increased interest in Jabber within the open source development community, along with an increase in the number of companies who… view Jabber as the most flexible and forward looking platform upon which they can deploy instant messaging applications and services.

Of the over 50 active projects, at least 17 have offerings available today, ranging from Jabber clients which combine features of Napster for file-sharing to clients specifically designed for use within highly important projects such as Netscape's Mozilla browser. A partial list of current projects in development can be found here.

“It's astonishing at how many people are really digging into the platform and beginning to use it in ways which I never imagined. I think some of the most powerful technologies are at their core, quite simple. Jabber is no exception,” said Jeremie Miller, founder of the Jabber Open Source Project (www.jabber.org). “It's exciting to hear of new projects and companies that are finding the platform straight-forward, easy-to-use and manipulate. XML is a great language for developers because it provides them with a lot of flexibility.”

 
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