Whats the difference between a Chat Server and an Instant Messaging Server?
Both offers are available from 12Planet. They are both server type of software intended to be installed on your own server machine. A server type of software can be seen as a central engine that runs on a machine to provide Internet services (ex: a web server software provides web sites hosting. Users visit a web site though a client software called web browser, such as Internet Explorer). A Chat Server makes hosting of named chat rooms possible. A chat room is a space where users can talk together (example: thematic rooms such as “sports”, “movies”). The client application for the chat server is a Java chat applet. An Instant Messaging server lets you to create a private instant messaging network, providing buddy list management services, similar to what’s offered by MSN, AOL or Yahoo. With 12Planet Instant Messaging server, the instant messaging network is fully yours and is not based on or connected to any public networks. The client application for the instant messaging server is c
