What to do, oh what do do..

Ok...I have intentions of starting a chat site that is similar to Yahoo chat, and better than AOL chat(ugh). I have already tested this and can do it easily. (have a private test site up). That part is pretty much done.

NOW....the advantage AOL and Yahoo have over me? They each have an instant messenger that ties directly into their chat system so that you dont have to goto the chat site, you can simply join chat from the IM. This is where I am lost.

I need IM software that works on all the windows systems that can be further developed to interact with our chat software on a linux machine.

1) Is there any software out there like this that is open source and can be developed for such a thing?

2) If not, is there even a commercial company that is developing IM software for this type of purpose?

3) If not even that, are any of YOU developing IM software that could be developed for such a thing?

 

 

 

 

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