Jabber Australia

Wouldn't it be nice if everyone in the world used the same chat program? You then wouldn't have to worry about loading up five different programs to talk to various friends. Never fear, someone is working on the problem!

Jabber is a solution to all your Instant Messaging woes. It's an open messaging system developed by the Jabber Software Foundation, and is now the standard for Instant Messaging. The system performs similar functions to services from MSN, ICQ and Yahoo!, but without the unneccessary restrictions.

Why is Jabber better? Notice the recent disruptions to the MSN Messenger service? Not to mention all the virus issues and similar problems last year. When MSN outages occur millions of people are left unable to connect! Jabber gets around these problems by having hundreds of servers worldwide. All of them are interconnected, and you just sign up with the one you prefer. If a server in America goes off the air, it doesn't affect the rest of the Jabber network at all. Everyone else just keeps on chatting. Not to forget that you won't have anymore trouble with viruses. You can learn more about the benefits on our About page.

Support for other services is important to many people. For this reason, Jabber has the ability to talk to closed Instant Messaging services controlled by foreign corporations like Microsoft and AOL. Of course, if those companies' servers go offline, even Jabber can't connect to them (but neither can your MSN/AOL friends, so convince them to switch to Jabber instead).

Interested in trying Jabber out? Read our Services page, and learn how to connect to the Jabber network through our server. If you're using a Mac then also check out our iChat tutorial.