CB

Caio B.

iOS Engineer

Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/3/2016

"Best "

5/5

What do you like best about Openfire?

Many of the positive points in my tool utilization were the easy and simple integration with various tools, and chief among them is the speed at which messages are reflected in the communication. By also dealing with a tool and open source allows us developers create more loyalty and trust with the Openfire. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Openfire?

Problems often happen that make me determined for the connection time, especially with Automatic reconnection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Openfire:

I recommend to all developers / people from the area who have problems with machine-machine communication since slowly ease of use change and create a culture next to Open fire and the whole community that keeps you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Openfire solving and how is that benefiting you?

In my company got a high advantage with Openfire, had a slightly lower latency from the machine-machine communication, which created a great feedback and efficiency at work.

The company used Linux system on every machine because it is a problem concerning the machine-machine communication at the time we thought we had a huge problem on their hands, researching and studying found that the best way would be the Openfire that in addition to an open tool -source be easily installed and integrated after the implementation got good feedback about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Alexander P.

CEO, co-founder, chief developer

Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/23/2016

"One of the easiest-to-setup XMPP servers"

5/5

What do you like best about Openfire?

Openfire, despite being powerful, is really easy to get started with. You can use it standalone, or configure LDAP — all a matter of a few clicks in the GUI setup. It also works with Docker, although there were some problems with this setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Openfire?

It seemed like Openfire would work in Docker (there are even some ready images in Docker Hub for that purpose), but it didn't go really well. We've ended up setting it up on bare server alongside our dockerized setup. Also, it is a bit hard to integrate with some systems it wasn't meant to be integrated with (i. e. no lack-like flexibility), but if you are a developer, there's nothing impossible for you! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Claudio F.

Sr. Software Developer

Management Consulting

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/3/2016

"The fastest way to get realtime messaging through XMPP protocol"

5/5

What do you like best about Openfire?

It's both easy to configure and to use. A first timer would be able to easily configure it as its interface is just so intuitive. Dealing with the entrails of XMPP which are XML flavoured messages isn't the easiest task, but from the server point of view, when using Openfire everything becomes a bliss! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Openfire?

Sometimes when the API on the development side gets outdated, or Openfire is telling us to update its interface and we do perform some update, it's common to get a bunch of incompatibilities afterwards. They should strive to keep at least some backwards compatibility so we don't need to get back to our coding every single time we update the API or the server. Most of the times it's not a big deal though.

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Recommendations to others considering Openfire:

If you have been going through all the ordeal of dealing with XMPP vast protocol, without much success of understanding really what is going on at the server side of your application. Perhaps it's time to take a look at Openfire solution. It's easy to install, configure and integrate. Administrative tasks such as users creation, roles definition is easy as pie. Publish-subscribe handshakes on the server side isn't the easiest thing in the world, with openfire it's abstracted with a great and intuitive GUI. Go ahead and give it a try! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Openfire solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have these applications which envolve a lot of real time features and the need of prompt response in communication between machine to machine. A small latency would be just too much, so simple http was completely out of the question. As I came to know about XMPP protocol a few years ago, it was both a relieve just being able to deal with such a wonderful protocol, but it was a pain having to deal with unintuitive server side technologies. Openfire really came to rescue on this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Rusty P.

Senior Director of Global Operations and Quality

Medical Devices

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/28/2012

"Private IM Hosting"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Openfire?

We use OpenFire in combination with Spark IM client to host an internal IM client that can be used by all of our employees. It allows for real-time collaboration and, best of all, it is free.

It also integrates fully with Active Directory (and other LDAP services) so that our users are seamlessly logged in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Openfire?

It is very functional for a free software, so I don't have any complaints. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.