Just did our smartnet/support renewal for the year, in our situation at least it cost more this year for the new ESW/UCSS versus SASU last year. granted we added some VM boxes, but not _that_ many more :)<br><br>The pricing is simpler to understand. For example, I just have Unity and X number of users, versus last year having support items for unity, unity data store(s), users, failover users, blah blah. Just seemed to cost more for us in this situation than from last year.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/10/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kelemen Zoltan</b> <<a href="mailto:keli@carocomp.ro">keli@carocomp.ro</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
From a Cisco presentation on 16.Apr (can't find the link anymore,<br>though I've got the presentation if someone wants to take a look at it) :<br>* SAS and SASU for UC products (only) goes End of Sales on April 27th 2007
<br>* Existing contracts will be honored until expiration<br>* Quotes dated April 27th or before honored for 60 days<br><br>... instead, now we've got ...<br><br>SAS = ESW (Esential Operate Software)<br>SASU = ESW + UCSS (Unified Communications Software Subscription )
<br><br>where the UCSS is per year (1,2 or 3 year) and per user "upgrade<br>*product*". And as Cisco people told us, they will "make sure", that<br>ad-hoc upgrades will cost more, than this subscription, and you won't be
<br>able to skip upgrades either (so to upgrade two major versions ad-hoc,<br>you'll need to buy two upgrades). Also, there will be one major upgrade<br>per year (how else could they tax us otherwise? :) )<br></blockquote>
</div><br>-- <br>Ed Leatherman<br>Senior Voice Engineer<br>West Virginia University<br>Telecommunications and Network Operations