[cisco-voip] cisco licensing changes...

[Scott Voll]

And for an enterprise it also comes down to support.  if they have a staffer
to take care of CM they can get a VAR to take over in case they leave.  if
it's open source it's a little harder to get someone to come in and support
it.

just my 2 cents.

Scott

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Jason Aarons (US) <
jason.aarons at us.didata.com> wrote:

> 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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