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

[Craig Staffin]

Yeah definatly a little surprised

Although 5 was not the most stable version so my guess is that they are
pushing people to upgrade to 5.1 or 6 so that they are on a more stable
platform

Craig

On Jan 9, 2008 6:56 PM, Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca> wrote:

> 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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> Subject: End-of-Sale Announcement for Cisco Unified Communications Manager
> Version 5.0
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>
> > 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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> >
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