Effusia Blog

If your business is running Linux, you don’t have many options for internal instant messaging. Of course there are always public systems but those send your company IMs outside of your company’s protected network and over the Internet. That is a serious security risk for your company’s network and more importantly your company’s sensitive information!

Since our initial release over 5 years ago, Effusia has released a version for Linux. Our customer base for the Linux version has unfortunately been small and for the Effusia Console on the desktop, practically non existent. Linux on the Desktop has been slow to take.

Every year seems to be the year of the Linux desktop but this year is even more so. With many users disappointed with Microsoft Vista, companies like Dell selling Linux pre-installed and with great attention given to the desktop user by distributions such as Ubuntu and Fedora, maybe this will be the year.

Recently we have also had more interest from some existing customers for an updated Effusia Console for Linux. I’ve spent a good part of the past week working on that release. Aside from a few little quirks along the way, it is now working beautifully.

Are you running Linux on the desktop? We would love to hear from you and while you are here, download a free trial and let us know what you think of the Effusia Console on Linux.

Tags: development, Effusia Console, linux

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