[cisco-voip] Fw: End-of-Sale Announcement for Cisco Unified Communications Manager Version 5.0

[Lelio Fulgenzi]

Is anyone else surprised by this EOL announcement? It sounded like they
EOL'ed 4.1 b/c of Windows 2000, so I was under the impression that with the
linux platform they wouldn't have to EOL these things so quickly.

Granted, everyone is "saying" that upgrades are going to be easier, but
there are still some wrinkles to iron out from the sounds of it. And really,
only three and a half years away from the EOL announcement the product
becomes end of support? According to the doc, v5 was released in March 17,
2006 - but really - who's gonna install it within a year on a production
network? so really, you only get 4 years out of it and you are forced to
upgrade.

I'm not sure I'm buying into this practice.

I think you should be able to run a telephone system for longer than 3 -4
years without being forced to upgrade.

my two cents.

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Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.
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Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 6:44 PM
Subject: End-of-Sale Announcement for Cisco Unified Communications Manager
Version 5.0


> Message Type : End-of-sales/ End-of-life announcement
>
> Cisco announces the end-of-sale date for Cisco Unified Communications
> Manager Version 5.0.
> The last day to order the affected product(s) is June 30, 2008. Customers
> with active service
> contracts will continue to receive support from the Cisco Technical
> Assistance Center (TAC) as
> shown in Table 1 of the EoL bulletin.
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