In office network messaging app suggestion

Situation: I would like to use my iPhone to send messages to other computers on my office network. It would be nice to be able to send docs as well. For example, I would like to have a template for an invoice that I could fill out on my iPhone and send to the cashier. Office computers are running Windows.
Any suggestions as far as cross platform programs and/or apps that could do this? Does AOL/AIM do network messaging, ie without having to access the internet?
Thanks for any ideas.
Message was edited by: Robart Defuego

In a networked world, why on earth would you want to use a "thick" app on the iPhone and another "thick" app on 1 (or more) Windows machine(s)?
Surely a web app is the way to go here, with an iPhone-friendly version of the interface? It doesn't have to be an "internet" app - in fact, in a small office, you could just run a copy of Apache on a desktop Windows machine and have everyone access that over the internal office network.
There are plenty of web-based IM-type products (open source or otherwise) that you could install to do what you want.

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