Jive (formerly known as Clearspace, then Jive SBS, then Jive Engage) is a commercial

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-based

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collaboration and

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tool produced by

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. It was first released as "Clearspace" in 2006, then renamed SBS (for "Social Business Software") in March 2009, then renamed "Jive Engage" in 2011, and renamed simply to "Jive" in 2012. Jive integrates the functionality of

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microblogging Microblogging is a form of social network that permits only short posts. They "allow users to exchange small elements of content such as short sentences, individual images, or video links",. Retrieved June 5, 2014 which may be the major reason for ...

, social networking,

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, blogs,

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, and IM under one unified user interface. Content placed into any of the systems (blog, wiki, documentation, etc.) can be found through a common search interface. Other features include

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capability,

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integration, a reputation and reward system for participation, personal user profiles,

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web service interoperability, and integration with the

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. The product is a pure-Java server-side web application and will run on any platform where Java (

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1.5 or higher) is installed. It does not require a dedicated server - users have reported successful deployment in both shared environments and multiple machine clusters. As of Jive 8, released March 30, 2015, there is a Jive-n version which is for internal use (hosted by the consumer or hosted by Jive

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) and a Jive-x version which is an external version hosted as a service. Jive no longer supports

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language.

Server requirements for Jive 8-n

The following are the server requirements for Jive 8-n * Operating systems:

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version 6 or 7 for x86_64, CentOS version 6 or 7 for x86_64 or SuSE Enterprise Linux Server (SLES) 11 and 12 for x86_64 * Application Servers: Jive ships with its own embedded Apache HTTPD and Tomcat servers as part of the install package. It is not possible to deploy the application onto other appservers. * Databases: **

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(5.1, 5.5, 5.6) **

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(11gR2, 12c) **

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(9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4 - 9.2 or higher recommended) **

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(2008R2, 2012, 2014) * Environment: ** Jive recommends a server with at least 4GB of RAM and a dual-core 2 GHz processor with x86_64 architecture ** The product integrates with an LDAP repository or Active Directory ** For optimal deployment with a large community Jive Software recommends: *** using dedicated cache and document-conversion servers *** hosting the application and database servers separately

Releases

* Jive 8, released on March 30, 2015 * Jive 7, released in October 2013 * Jive 9.0.x, released in November 2016 * Jive 9, released in November 2016, supported now

References

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Server requirements for Jive 8-n

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