In December 2005, Boris Mann was sharing his prospective thoughts on the future of Jabber / XMPP. He praised ejabberd Open Source server:
eJabberd is one of the best XMPP servers period. For Java-heads, there is Jive Software’s Wildfire, now available under a dual license.
Read the full post on Boris Mann blog: 2006 will be the year of XMPP