[cisco-voip] CCM Upgrade to 4.1 on HP DL320-G3

[Mike Armstrong]

Nah... what's to flame?   I doubt seriously that switching to Linux will 
avoid an OS license from Cisco (if you want support).  At last count there 
were 392 "officially" recognized distributions of linux for the Intel 
platform (http://www.linux.org/dist/list.html).  I'd be REALLY surprised if 
TAC didn't want to narrow that down slightly -- say, to 1 -- and the easiest 
way to do that is obvious.  I would welcome a buy-what-you-need licensing 
model, but I'd sure like one that was intuitive, reasonable, and flexible, 
unlike some I know of.

mike

> Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 06:39:14 -0500
> From: Chris Ellington <chris.ellington at nsi1.com>
> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] CCM Upgrade to 4.1 on HP DL320-G3
> To: <cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
> Message-ID: <C053D092.5F42%chris.ellington at nsi1.com>
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> Hopefully I won't start a flamewar but-
>
> Perhaps it's possible too to clean up the 18G drives a bit and buy just a
> little bit of time until you can move to linux - then it would seem that 
> the
> whole M$ licensing schemes would be invalidated.  Hopefully this sort of
> nonsense will be avoided in the future since we aren't going to buy a
> platform limit but rather a license block to license what we are using
> (check the price list if you don't understand what I'm saying - look in 
> the
> CCM licenses).
>
> In theory, a 7845 and a 7815 will cost the same from an OS license
> perspective as we move away from M$.
>
> chris