Poll: Best IM solution?

[penk]

So say your company has been chugging along without an instant messaging policy. Folks have been using whatever they're comfortable with. This has led to "You're on IRC, I'm on AIM, she's on Gtalk." problems. Things like Pidgin, Colloquy, and Trillian have made it less of an issue, but it would be nice to have SOME policy in place.

Normally, I'd say "Go jabber, run your own server, be happy", but Jabber / GTalk has the fatal flaw (as far as I can tell) of having no chat room / multichat functionality.

So. What would you recommend? The chat room thing is important, but not a deal breaker. Persistent rooms would be nice :)

[Poll #1637469]

Comments

[dancingwolfgrrl.livejournal.com]

In my experience, Gtalk rooms also aren't really stable; Skype for multichat has the same issue. AIM works, but the ads are annoying and you need Pidgin or something to get multiple logins. IRC is probably what I'd prefer, especially among geeks.

[blk]

I actually haven't used anything non-pidgin in yeeeeears. So I didn't even know there were ads on AIM! :)

[penk.livejournal.com]

Ditto :) You mean there's an AIM client? From, like, AOL? Huh! Whoddathunkit?