Spark is an Open Source, cross-platform IM client optimized for businesses and organizations. It features built-in support for group chat, telephony integration, and strong security. It also offers a great end-user experience with features like in-line spell checking, group chat room bookmarks, and tabbed conversations.
Combined with the Wildfire server, Spark is the easiest and best alternative to using un-secure public IM networks.

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    On the Release Train

    The engineering team at Jive Software is growing fast (btw, we’re hiring!). I thought it might be interesting to talk about some of the engineering process changes we’re making to cope with that growth, especially since they directly affect ... [More] product releases. First, a bit of history. We’ve always had a fairly agile development process — [...] [Less]

    Spark Skinning Update

    The Spark Skinning Service has been a hot topic here at Jive for the past couple of weeks. The service is not yet ready to serve up customized builds of Spark 2.5 (it will be ready late May) and it turns out that one small change to the service will make it much easier to [...]

    Spark Goodies

    We are getting closer and closer to the final release of Spark 2.5, and I thought I would give a little insight on some of the stuff that’s new, stuff that’s coming, and stuff that’s hidden. It doesn’t do anyone any good when we have features within the client that no one knows about. [...]

    My Spark Update

    After coding night and day for a while, I sometimes forget that people need some help getting setup with some of our new features. It’s always a balancing act between development, forums and writing up documentation for all this good stuff we’ve been coding up. Trust me, I have Matt and Greg always [...]

    Releases: Second Wave

    Just one week later, I’m pleased to announce the second wave of releases:
    Wildfire 3.2.0
    The production release of Wildfire 3.2 is now available, including updated versions of the Enterprise plugin and the connection manager module. The 3.2 ... [More] release is a major milestone for the project. We’ve massively increased scalability and started branching out beyond instant [...] [Less]

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