Jabber in the company

Hallöchen!

I was suprised how easy ... well trivial it is to setup an openfire
server on one of the servers in the research centre I work at.
Within 5 minutes, the thing was installed, started, and connected
via LDAPS to the active directory of the recearch centre,
authenticating against it with the correct passwords, and even
grouping the users according to their institutes.

However, five minutes later I switched it off because it's probably
forbidden.

Now I plan to suggest an openfire officially here, ideally with S2S
communication.  How should I do that?  Does anybody here have
experiences?  In particular, the IT department will tell me that
they have security concerns.  Is this valid?  Are there studies
about virus infections through Jabber in companies?  What are
counter-measures?

Tschö,
Torsten.

-- 
Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetus
                   Jabber ID: [email protected]
                                  or http://bronger-jmp.appspot.com

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