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Title: Linux messaging program and service for business use?
Post by: icedigger on May 06, 2020, 05:26:45 PM

Does anybody know of or recommend a service for messaging use that has a good desktop linux program for small business use?

Title: Re: Linux messaging program and service for business use?
Post by: Moltke on May 07, 2020, 12:00:00 AM

Quote from: icedigger on May 06, 2020, 05:26:45 PM

Does anybody know of or recommend a service for messaging use that has a good desktop linux program for small business use?

Free? Paid? Reading here might help https://www.ubuntupit.com/best-instant-messaging-programs-for-linux/

Title: Re: Linux messaging program and service for business use?
Post by: icedigger on May 07, 2020, 09:08:19 AM

Probably paid for so we get some support with it.

Title: Re: Linux messaging program and service for business use?
Post by: Moltke on May 07, 2020, 10:14:07 AM

Quote from: icedigger on May 07, 2020, 09:08:19 AM

Probably paid for so we get some support with it.

Then I think slack might be what you're looking for https://slack.com/intl/en-bd/downloads/linux

Title: Re: Linux messaging program and service for business use?
Post by: D0zMe on July 12, 2020, 05:25:11 PM

While it doesn't have paid support, Jitsi (https://jitsi.org/) is a free & open source option that's been around for awhile:

Title: Re: Linux messaging program and service for business use?
Post by: Albrecht Stefan on October 01, 2020, 07:26:38 AM

A couple of other messaging programs for business use besides Slack:

Troop Messenger
Mattermost
Ryver
Tox
Jami

Also: Franz is a good tool for multiple private and business accounts managed at the same time.

Title: Re: Linux messaging program and service for business use?
Post by: LL-user on October 10, 2020, 01:25:32 PM

We (35k user) just installed Matrix/Element


https://matrix.org


https://element.io


Hope that helps  :)