Jive Software's Wildfire IM Server Runs Away With Jupitermedia's 2006 Product Excellence Award

Jupitermedia Corporation today awarded Jive Software's Wildfire IM Server with their annual Product Excellence Award for the Real-Time Communications Server category. "The readers of ServerWatch are savvy IT professionals, and the results of our 2006 Product Excellence Awards voting reinforce that," stated Dan Muse, executive editor of ServerWatch. "Voters weren't locked into one or two vendors, as the winners and runners-up include both well-known brands and products that aren't yet household names. The common denominator, though, is innovation," added Muse.

According to the article from Jupermedia, "Wildfire from Jive Software ran away with the real-time communication category, capturing more votes than Microsoft Live Communications Server 2005, IBM Lotus SameTime, and Antepo OPN XT combined." Runner-up was awarded to Microsoft's Live Communication Server 2005.

"Even though Wildfire is the market-leading Open Source XMPP (Jabber)-based IM Server, you can expect that in the coming months you'll see Wildfire get even more competitive," said Dave Hersh, CEO Jive Software. "The combination of an open architecture, open protocol and open source code gives companies a much more powerful and flexible real-time communication option, without sacrificing any security or reliability. We see Jupermedia's award not only as support for our Wildfire Server but for the open XMPP protocol as well."

Wildfire is available under the Open-Source GPL license as well as having commercial extensions. Companies interested in learning more about Wildfire can find more information at http://www.jivesoftware.com. Developers interested in participating in the Wildfire project should visit http://www.jivesoftware.org.

About Jive Software:

Jive Software improves how people work together through easy-to-use, open-architecture, enterprise collaboration software, providing intuitive, valuable, easy to deploy software for engineers and users. Jive Software does this through a flexible system for collaboration that matches an open, enterprise-class architecture with a dedication to ease of use and smarter features. By keeping the architecture open, Jive Software ensures that integration and customization are easy, and that employees, customers and partners can all work together in the same environment. Through this laser-focus on flexibility and practicality, Jive Software is changing the way people collaborate. http://www.jivesoftware.com

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