Jabber, Inc., the leading developer of open architecture for enterprise-and carrier-class presence-enabled communications, including instant messaging (IM), today announced the general availability of the 2.7 release of Jabber™ XCP (eXtensible Communications Platform), Jabber™ Messenger, and Jabber™ WebClient.
I’ve used the free Jabber client since I started dabbling in XMPP. The version I used was not quite as complete as others, but it was clean, solid, and “just worked.” I’ll definately be taking a look at the new client.
It looks like 2.7 has some major improvements on the server side too, catering mostly to corporate clients. If you’d just like to tinker with a Jabber/XMPP server, jabber.org has an excellent list of open source server implementations.
Pertinent links: Jabber Messenger client, Jabber Platform, Extensible IM and Jabber Web Client.