A lot of progress has been made in the last week with regards to the reliability of CFOpenChat.  It handles temporary connection failures much better now, and will hopefully no longer just randomly decide to boot everyone out of the chat room at will.

CFOpenChat is a coldfusion powered chat room application built using Rob Gonda's ajaxCFC.  It supports MSSQL and MySQL, and could easily be adapted for other database as well.

For full details, a demo, and the download, visit:

http://www.opensourcecf.com/cfopenchat/

CFOpenChat is free, open source software licensed under the BSD license.