Unlike these commercial services, Jabber is a decentralized network. Jabber is an open alternative to consumer IM services. Melvin Rivera has created an article, " iChat to MSN Through Jabber", that walks you through the entire process of creating a Jabber account, configuring it for the services you want to use and then configuring iChat and your Address Book to allow you to add all of your buddies across different IM services: The Jabber website lists a number of "pros" including decentrailization, exensibility, security, and stability. The real neat thing is that while most people solve these issues on the client (both Trillian and Adium use the GAIM libraries to achieve this), Jabber tries to solve this on the server through various channel (AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo!) plugins. Jabber's goal is to standardize and improve on instant messaging as well as unify the multitude of formats available from different companies. What most people don't realise that iChat ships with support for another protocol called Jabber. IChat's biggest downfall is that it's only interoperable with AIM (and ICQ via AIM) and Bonjour.
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