[cisco-voip] cisco licensing changes...

[Scott Voll]

3 to 4 of my counter parts in k12 are moving or have moved to Asterick.
 They have even been able to add some redundance to it with SQL DBs
exchanging configs.

I have to admit I'm pretty impressed with what they have done.

But it's kind of like web filtering.  You can either pay licensing for a
good product or you can go open source and pay the labor?  The choice is
yours.

In the Education vertical, I have seen / heard and are planning to move to
exchange for UM from Unity.  Under site licensing we can get Exchange UM for
really no extra costs.  and the rate at which Cisco has been charging for
Unity maintenance it's a real driver.  If Cisco does that with other
products, we will look at other options.  OCS vs CUPS.  again for education
M$s SLA it's a no brainer.

Scott

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Matthew Saskin <msaskin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Amen.  I'd like to see one enterprise customer that's running asterisk or
> an asterisk derivative for their phone system...
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> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Bill Simon <bills at psu.edu> wrote:
>
>> John Huston wrote:
>>
>>> Cisco is not crediting you for anything extra right now.  While they have
>>> good product it's getting too expensive for a value to use type ratio, just
>>> like it is to run Microsoft products.  We're seeing a move from Cisco to
>>> Juniper for routers and switches and then from Callmanager to Asterisk phone
>>> systems.  They're cheaper to run and customers are not paying for featues
>>> they do not use often.
>>>
>>
>> Who's your demographic?
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