I installed Jabber on my Linux server @ work yesterday. Took about 15 minutes to setup the server side, ‘nuther 15 to get a Linux client up and running and 15 to get a Windows client running and connected. Amazingly easy to do and I think Jabber could be very useful in a small office/department environment, if not an entire enterprise. Interally we use IM and email almost exclusively to communicate, even though we don’t have any cubes and sometimes you’re sitting right next to the person you’re talking w/. Anyway, here’s a fun article on using Jabber and bots.