Bounty for voice/video support in Pidgin

[Diego Costantini]

For Praaven:
sorry, i didn't have statistics, i just spoke about my experience.
Anyway, you should consider also private and enterprise  networks, which 
usually use an own jabber server without resulting in statistics (still 
in my experience :) ), and they could really benefit of a Voice/Video 
support on Pidgin (which results to be the internally recommended 
client, together with the prohibition of using MS Live Messenger client 
:) ).

Then if statistics are different, i apologize for my limited experience :)

Dipankar Sarkar wrote:
> If you check the wikipedia article on Instant messengers
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_messaging
>
> Windows live leads by a huge margin over day AIM,YIM etc ....
>
> Windows live - 294 million active worldwide
> Jabber - 90 million total
> AIM - >100 million total
> QQ - 783 million total accounts "active 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QQ#QQ_levels>"
>
> Some numbers, don't know if they are correct. But its there supported 
> with articles.
> I would say that Live is one of the most used even with the data set 
> around me. Followed by gtalk(xmpp) / yahoo.
>
> 2008/7/28 Praveen Markandu <praveenmarkandu at gmail.com 
> <mailto:praveenmarkandu at gmail.com>>
>
>     Diego Costantini wrote:
>
>         I think XMPP is the most widespread protocol, and in my
>         opinion has
>         maximum priority. For the rest, in my experience, the most
>         significant
>         protocol for future applications is SIP, after that, based on
>         users
>         number, is MSN.
>
>
>      sorry i have seen a few people say that xmpp should have priority
>     because it is the most used protocol. i find this hard to believe.
>     it does have the most clients dedicated to it but in terms of
>     number of users i am prettys sure aim yahoo and msn would easily
>     surpass it.can someone give links to some statistics to prove me
>     otherwise.
>
>     regards,
>     Praveen
>
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