[cisco-voip] CUCM: End-of-Life & End-of-sale policies

[Craig Staffin]

As far as the hardware bill goes.  Cisco still does allow you to use your
own hardware it just needs to match the EXACT specs that thier hardware
would be.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/compat/mcs-server-os-0711.xls<http://tools.cisco.com/search/display?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cisco.com%2Fen%2FUS%2Fdocs%2Fvoice_ip_comm%2Fcucm%2Fcompat%2Fmcs-server-os-0711.xls&pos=1&strqueryid=&websessionid=LDTCdud83820mCbS67Ndnwd>

So in other words go buy your servers from HP for half the cost.

Craig

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 4:36 AM, al <massalia7 at free.fr> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> For a client, I am trying to sum up the End-of-Life and End-of-sale
> policies for CallManager 4.1.3 , 5.1 and 6.1.
> First of all, I read the End-of-life Policy:
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_end-of-life_policy.html.
> Next, I read the End-of-Life and End-of-sales Notices:
>
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/voicesw/ps556/prod_eol_notices_list.html
> .
>
> But, there is something, that I don't really understand:
>
> If I want to buy one of the three version (4.1.3,  5.1, 6.1) next month:
> For, 4.1.3 and 4.2 : End of sale date: 15 May 2008; End of Software
> Maintenance 15 May 2009, Last date of support:15 May 2011.
>
> For, 5.1 and 6.1, I have to buy the latest "DL380-G5" with one of these
> Cisco Part Number "CM6.0-K9-380G5" or "CM5.1-K9-380G5".
> So, the end of life announcement has not yet  released (if I am not
> wrong), can I claim that the end of support would not be before April
> 2013 ? (at least five years of support ?)
>
> If you'are wondering about the 4.1.3 choice => It's only about reducing
> the bill (4.1.3 it's the last version not performing the hardware
> verification, so the client has not to buy hardware and keep the
> previous one)
>
> I really prefer the 5.1 or 6.1 choice. (what do you think ?)
>
> Thanks in advance for any support.
>
>
>
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