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Overview of DBabble Chat Server & Client
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We pride ourselves on giving our customers
unparalleled service.
We stand behind our software, if you are not satisfied with the product, performance
or customer support we will refund 100% of your purchase price.
DBabble is highly customizable. You can easily change the name from DBabble to whatever you want (e.g. "Your Company Name Messenger"). You can completely customize the web pages. The appearance of the Windows client is also customizable and you can even change almost every piece of text visible to your users.
DBabble users can be either authenticated via a POP server, use DBabble's built in authentication system, or an external authentication module. Netwin have available external authentication modules for Unix Passwords, NT Passwords, MySQL, LDAP and more. You can even write your own external authentication module to be used by DBabble. With DBabble's internal authentication system, it can be set up to allow users to create their own accounts (and optionally email passwords to them), or this can be restricted to allow only administrator users to create accounts.
DBabble supports SSL server to client encrypted
communication using both the web interface and Windows client. Additionally, the
Windows client has built in support for client to client public key encrypted
instant messages as well as digitally signed instant messages so the recipient
can be sure the message really came from who it claims to be from. The server
and client do not need any additional software installed to support these features.
DBabble has the advantage over other
chat servers that users are able to communicate with external users through
a standard http proxy server, whether they are using a web browser or the client
for windows. The windows client automatically uses their Internet Explorer or
Netscape Communicator proxy server settings if available so that users do not
need to go through an often confusing process (from their point of view) of
specifying their proxy server settings. All server management needs can be performed
from within the DBabble user interface, by any user with administrator privileges.
For increased security, this can be restricted to be allowed only from specified
IP addresses.
Users can send instant messages to either
individual users or to groups of users and optionally attach files to the message.
They can use an optional chat mode where the message recipient(s) can see the
text as it is being typed. All messages are stored on the server, so users can
read old messages from anywhere they login from. Administrators can optionally
impose user quotas to limit storage space. Users can also choose to send instant
messages to email addresses, and can receive email sent to DBabble as instant
messages. The DBabble administrator or individual users can optionally disable
the email to instant message feature if they are concerned about instant message
spam, or if you want to isolate your server from the outside world.
Unlike many other instant messaging applications
(e.g. MSN, ICQ, or those that use the Jabber protocol) where instant message
delivery is unreliable and messages sometimes go missing without the sender
knowing due to a momentary network error, or just a poorly designed communication
protocol, DBabble message delivery is very reliable. When a user sends a message,
it does not disappear from their screen until it has been successfully delivered
to every recipient's account on the server. A connected client can not remain
connected for more than a few seconds if it has not received every message waiting
to be delivered to it. DBabble provides discussion groups that
can be created by any user who has permission to do so. These are similar to
usenet (NNTP) groups, and the groups can optionally be linked to pull articles
from external usenet groups. DBabble can also act as an NNTP server, so that
news-readers can read DBabble discussions as though they are newsgroups. Additionally,
DBabble can act as an SMTP server for the purpose of accepting incoming mail
intended as articles for it's discussion groups. Users are able to tell DBabble
to send any new articles in specified groups to them directly via Email or as
instant messages. Discussions can also be marked as private and allow only certain
users to read and/or post to them. DBabble provides chat rooms that can
be created by any user who has permission to do so. A chat room can optionally
be made private so that only specified users have access to it. Chat rooms can
optionally be made encrypted, which means that anything said is automatically
encrypted by the DBabble client so that only people listed in the 'Users Present'
list can read the message. Messages in encrypted chat rooms are also digitally
signed to prevent users pretending to be someone else.
You can use DBabble to insert links into
your existing web pages so that your customers can click on a link to initiate
a one on one private chat with particular DBabble users or a random online member
of a particular DBabble group of users. If you are using the DBabble windows client
and are either not connected to DBabble or haven't moved your mouse or typed anything
on your computer recently, then the link inserted into your web page will automatically
state that you are not currently available. Anything typed in these private chats
can been seen by the other person as it is being typed to facilitate quick responses.
Or you can set it like this page where if a member of our DBabble support
team is online when you view this page, then the top right hand corner contains
an embedded DBabble private chat with us. If we are not online then a box listing
some features of DBabble is displayed instead. DBabble chat servers can either be run
as a stand-alone server, or can be linked to other servers worldwide via a master
server that informs it of the location of other servers. Users are then able
to communicate with users on other servers, and visit discussions and chat rooms
that are hosted on other servers. The web pages displayed to users when
using the web browser interface to DBabble are easily customizable by the system
administrator, to include anything they want such as advertising images and
links. You can even change the name of the server and windows client from DBabble
to anything you want. DBabble provides a Windows client that
can be downloaded from your DBabble server. This provides users with an easier
to use interface, which can offer more functionality such as detecting when
a user is idle, and hence probably not at their computer, and a nicer notification
system for when new messages arrive, and much more. Almost every piece of text
visible to non administrator users in the Windows client can be changed by the
server administrator to anything you want. You can even change the name from
DBabble to anything else by changing a single setting. See some screen
shots, try it out yourself at http://free.dbabble.com,
or read more about features of DBabble below. DBabble chat server can support multiple
languages. DBabble provides a list of all phrases used throughout it for you
to translate in to whatever languages you want. You can also use this to change
the English version of any piece of text your users see in to whatever you want.
This applies to both the web browser and Windows client versions of DBabble,
and includes languages that don't use the same character set as English. Currently
we have translations for Spanish, German, Chinese, Italian, French, Japanese,
Portuguese, Korean, Russian, Dutch, and Danish available. The German, and Danish
translations are complete translations for the latest release version. The Chinese,
Italian, and Spanish translations are partially translated by hand and merged
with machine translations. The other translations are entirely machine translations.
See DBabble Languages for more details. All Netwin staff spread over 2 cities
and others working from home use DBabble for our internal instant messaging,
and each version of DBabble is tested on our staff before release. This has
resulted in many suggestions for improvements from our staff, which have been
implemented and have made DBabble an ideal instant messaging system to use.
Most Netwin staff run the Windows client, and the web browser version is also
used by staff working on unix machines.
DBabble has a built in advertisement system
that lets you specify a list of advertisement images and associated web pages
on your server. Both the web browser and Windows client display random advertisements
that are occasionally changed. The advertisement feature can be turned off by
the server administrator if you would rather not use it.
A single 1 GHz server can support a user
databases of 10 million users, and up to 10,000 online users simultaneously. With
a better machine, you can expect better performance. See
DBabble Performance for more details.
DBabble Chat Server is currently available
for Windows 95/98/ME/XP/NT/2000/2003, Solaris, Linux, Mac OSX, Free BSD, Digital
Unix (OSF), and AIX. We may build for other UNIX platforms on request. Users
can access the DBabble server from any Web Browser that supports JavaScript
1.1 or later. (Netscape 4.0, Internet Explorer 4.0 or later) Users can optionally
download a client for Windows 95/98/ME/XP/NT/2000/2003 for faster and easier
access. We invite you to evaluate the DBabble
Chat and Discussion server software. Download the fully functional but time
limited server software from the download page, or
just login and try it out on our free DBabble server at http://free.dbabble.com.
See comments from some of our customers on our customer
comments page. DBabble is very reasonably priced for
an unlimited user license. See DBabble
Prices. We provide a 50% discount to State Universities and Schools using
DBabble for non-profit activities. See Education Licenses.
Buy now on our secure web
server. View a more detailed list of DBabble
features at DBabble feature list Satisfaction
Guaranteed! Are
you sick of buying software and then finding it doesn't do what you want,
or doesn't even work! We stand behind our software, if you are not satisfied
with the product, performance or customer support we will refund 100%
of your purchase price.
Users do not need direct internet access
Server management can be fully performed from within the DBabble user interface
DBabble instant messages
Reliable message delivery
DBabble Discussions can be linked to usenet (NNTP) groups and interfaced to
Email
DBabble Chat Rooms
Use DBabble for online support
Server can be optionally linked to remote servers to enable interaction with
remote users
Web Pages that are easily customizable to suit your needs.
DBabble Windows Client
The background image and color scheme used throughout the DBabble Windows client
can be changed to use any .gif or .jpg image you want. The DBabble server administrator
can even set the default background image and color scheme used for any downloads
of the Windows client made from your server.
Can be translated to any language.
DBabble is used by all Netwin Staff
Built in advertisement feature that you disable if you want.
Can support up to 10 million users with 10,000 online simultaneously on a single
server
Operating Systems Supported
FREE Software Evaluation
Prices
Feature list