http://denniskennedy.com/blog/2009/02/its-blawgiversarybirthday-week-at-denniskennedy-blog/ Legal technology, technology law and other musings. Tue, 19 Feb 2013 04:08:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://denniskennedy.com/blog/2009/02/its-blawgiversarybirthday-week-at-denniskennedy-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-340 Dennis Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:29:29 +0000 http://denniskennedy_com.innosoftware.net/?p=1424#comment-340 Jim,
I’ll do a little research on this and see what I can come up with for you.
Dennis

]]> http://denniskennedy.com/blog/2009/02/its-blawgiversarybirthday-week-at-denniskennedy-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-339 Jim Strichartz Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:07:59 +0000 http://denniskennedy_com.innosoftware.net/?p=1424#comment-339 Since it is By Request week, I will repost the comment I left for you on 1/7.
One of my favorite posts from you this year was “Get the (Instant) Message, Dude!” While it was very useful, I had hoped that it would go further in talking about LAN messenger tools available for internal firm use.
My firm has continued using Windows Messenger 5.0 and the Exchange Instant Messenger program that came with Windows Server 2000 SBS for internal LAN messaging because Instant Messenger was not bundled with Exchange Server 2003 to which we migrated. We are now looking at retiring the Windows 2000 server since it is an 8 year old computer. The only reason we have kept it around is because of the IM function.
I have done some cursory research on alternative LAN messaging products, both peer to peer and client server based. There appear to be no shortage of products out there to consider, including LAN Messenger, Outlook LAN Messenger, Bopup Communication Server, Akeni Instant Messaging Server Pro, Sonork Instant Messaging Server, LAN Chat, Vypress Chat and Vypress Messenger. In fact there are so many products that the choices seem overwhelming.
I have been able to find no comparative reviews on these products and no guidance on selecting a product for a small law firm. Our needs are fairly simple. We need to be able to chat, one to one, within the LAN and also to users connected through a VPN. I think that a post that discusses the options available for use by a small law firm would be very helpful.

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