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|  |  | #### Overview of DBabble Office Messenger Server DBabble Office Messenger is an instant message, chat and discussion server, which allows users to send instant messages, have private conversations, and create and participate in private or public chat rooms and discussions. User groups can be created to allow sending of instant messages to groups of users. Users communicate with the server using either a web browser, or a client for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP. The server can optionally be set up so that users can also interact with other users on remote servers, and participate in remote chat rooms and discussions. Discussions can optionally be linked to external usenet (NNTP) groups. You can either download the fully functional but time limited server, try it out yourself on our public server at http://free.dbabble.com, or read more about features of DBabble below.
' The NetWinSite DBabble software is superb-- exactly what we need at Sun and Netscape. It is perfect for corporate discussion groups and messaging.' Joel Parker Henderson - Sun Microsystems
#### After Sales Service We pride ourselves on giving our customers unparalleled service, if you have questions, problems, or even need a feature added in a hurry we will bend over backwards to satisfy your needs. 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 Office Messenger Instant Messages and private conversations Users can send each other instant messages and optionally attach files to them. They can also initiate a one on one private conversation with another user. 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 Office Messenger as instant messages. #### Built in encryption 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 encryption and digital signing of instant messages. The server and client do not need any additional software installed to support these features. #### User Groups User groups, are lists of users that people can send instant messages to. Any user that has permission can create user groups and add members to them. When adding members to a user group, the user group will automatically appear in each members user group lists on their client. You can also optionally make all members of a user group appear on each others friends/contacts lists to save your users from the time in setting up their friends/contacts lists themselves. #### Reminder Messages DBabble Office Messenger can also be used to send reminder messages. All instant messages, whether to yourself, other users, or user groups, and be set to be sent at a particular time, and optionally repeated periodically. Reminders are stored on the server, so you could send yourself a reminder while logged in at home, and it will be delivered to you at the selected time while you are logged in at work. #### User Authentication using DBabble Office Messenger, POP Server, Unix Passwords, MySQL, LDAP or custom authentication modules DBabble Office Messenger users can be either authenticated via a POP server, use DBabble Office Messenger'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 Office Messenger. With DBabble Office Messenger'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 Office Messenger Windows Client DBabble Office Messenger provides a Windows client that can be downloaded from your DBabble Office Messenger 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 Office Messenger to anything else by changing a single setting. See some screen shots or try it out yourself at http://free.dbabble.com #### Can be translated to any language. DBabble Office Messenger can support multiple languages. DBabble Office Messenger 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 Office Messenger, and includes languages that don't use the same character set as English. See DBabble Office Messenger Languages for more details. #### Server Management can be fully performed from within the DBabble Office Messenger user interface All server management needs can be performed from within the DBabble Office Messenger user interface, by any user with administrator privileges. For increased security, this can be restricted to be allowed only from specified IP addresses. #### Users do not need direct internet access DBabble Office Messenger 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. #### DBabble Office Messenger Discussions can be linked to usenet (NNTP) groups and interfaced to Email DBabble Office Messenger 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 Office Messenger can also act as an NNTP server, so that news-readers can read DBabble Office Messenger discussions as though they are newsgroups. Additionally, DBabble Office Messenger 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 Office Messenger 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 Office Messenger Chat Rooms DBabble Office Messenger 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. #### Server can be optionally linked to remote servers to enable interaction with remote users DBabble Office Messenger 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. #### Web Pages that are easily customizable to suit your needs. The web pages displayed to users when using the web browser interface to DBabble Office Messenger 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 Office Messenger to anything you want. #### DBabble Office Messenger is used by all Netwin Staff All Netwin staff spread over 2 cities and others working from home use DBabble Office Messenger for our internal instant messaging, and each version of DBabble Office Messenger 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 Office Messenger 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. #### Can support up to 10 million users with 10,000 online simultaneously on a single server A single 350MHz Pentium 2 server can support a user databases of 10 million users, and up to 5,000 online users simultaneously. With a better machine, you can expect better performance. See DBabble Office Messenger Performance for more details. #### Operating Systems Supported DBabble Office Messenger Server is currently available for Windows NT, Solaris, Linux, Digital Unix (OSF), and Free BSD. We may build for other UNIX platforms on request. Users can access the DBabble Office Messenger 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 95/98/2000/NT for faster and easier access. #### FREE Software Evaluation Our invitation to you to evaluate the DBabble Office Messenger Instant Messaging 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 Office Messenger server at http://free.dbabble.com. See comments from some of our customers on our customer comments page. #### Prices DBabble Office Messenger is very reasonably priced for an unlimited user license. See DBabble Office Messenger Prices. DBabble Office Messenger is free to State Universities and Schools using DBabble Office Messenger for non-profit activities. See Education Licenses.
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