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Openfire vs Pusher

A side-by-side look at Openfire and Pusher. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Openfire

Openfire

Social & Communications

Openfire is an open source instant messaging and chat server. It uses the XMPP protocol and can be configured to work with many chat clients such as Spark, Pidgin, and Web clients. It is written in Java and has features like group chat, messaging archive, and plugins.

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Pusher

Pusher

Online Services

Pusher is a hosted API that allows you to add realtime functionality to web and mobile applications. It makes it easy to build features like notifications, messaging, live updates, collaborations tools, and more. Pusher handles all the complex functionality like scaling, security, and reliability behind an easy-to-use API.

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