[cisco-voip] cisco licensing changes...

[Jason Aarons (US)]

With experience you learn building a fence from pieces usually costs
more than buying the sections pre-built or getting the whole fence from
a professional fence builder/installer. Buying a service or commercial
off the shelf application with support usually has a fixed price. 

Can tell you how many self-developed application deployments have been
huge money pits..Siebel is the first that comes to mind...Salesforce as
a service is so much better. Risk is also a large factor for most
enterprises. They tend to be late adopters to avoid any risk.

-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Alan Buxey
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 1:49 PM
To: Lelio Fulgenzi
Cc: cisco-voip voyp list
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] cisco licensing changes...

Hi,
> I'm not fully versed with open source and how it works, but is it
possible that someone from the community can interject malicious code? I
mean, I would gather that it wouldn't be in there long, but if it's like
wikipedia, can't someone put in code that "phones home" and do some
damage before someone retracts it?

no - too many eye are on the submission process.

the funny thing is, even though open source code is fully open
and readable, more people find nice bugs in the closed proporietary
vendor
code. (sure, some projects have been whacked...but well managed ones
tend to not have had such issues)

there seems ot be some kind of funny knee-jerk reaction and mistrust
of OpenSource code...a LOT of Cisco (and Juniper etc) modern kit if
build with a large base of Open Source code running at the lower levels.

A company (be it small, medium or FTSE/NASDAQ 100 etc) would be foolish
to ignore Open Source or just discount it as worthless.

*IF* an OpenSource tool can do the job as well as some commercial
vendors
product then why not? (*)

alan

* the answer is generally 'support'. If you've got the skill to deal
with
it and understand why it goes wrong (**) in house then you are sorted

** plenty of expensive non Open Source software goes wrong too...and
needs
local skills or a lot of time spent calling the TAC/vendor  ;-)

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