<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I can't imagine anyone still running 5.0 in production today, much less 4 years from now.<div><br><div> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">-Ryan</font></p> </div><br><div><div>On Jan 9, 2008, at 9:42 PM, Craig Staffin wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Yeah definatly a little surprised<br><br>Although 5 was not the most stable version so my guess is that they are pushing people to upgrade to 5.1 or 6 so that they are on a more stable platform<br><br>Craig<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"> On Jan 9, 2008 6:56 PM, Lelio Fulgenzi <<a href="mailto:lelio@uoguelph.ca">lelio@uoguelph.ca</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Is anyone else surprised by this EOL announcement? It sounded like they<br>EOL'ed 4.1 b/c of Windows 2000, so I was under the impression that with the<br>linux platform they wouldn't have to EOL these things so quickly. <br><br>Granted, everyone is "saying" that upgrades are going to be easier, but<br>there are still some wrinkles to iron out from the sounds of it. And really,<br>only three and a half years away from the EOL announcement the product <br>becomes end of support? According to the doc, v5 was released in March 17,<br>2006 - but really - who's gonna install it within a year on a production<br>network? so really, you only get 4 years out of it and you are forced to <br>upgrade.<br><br>I'm not sure I'm buying into this practice.<br><br>I think you should be able to run a telephone system for longer than 3 -4<br>years without being forced to upgrade.<br><br>my two cents.<br><br> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.<br>Senior Analyst (CCS) * University of Guelph * Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1<br>(519) 824-4120 x56354 (519) 767-1060 FAX (JNHN) <br>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<br>"Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled<br>as good as bacon."<br>Doug Larson<br><br><br>----- Original Message ----- <br>From: "Cisco Product Alert Tool" <<a href="mailto:cco-pat-bouncehandler@external.cisco.com">cco-pat-bouncehandler@external.cisco.com</a>><br>To: <<a href="mailto:lelio@uoguelph.ca">lelio@uoguelph.ca </a>><br>Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 6:44 PM<br>Subject: End-of-Sale Announcement for Cisco Unified Communications Manager<br>Version 5.0<br><br><br>> Message Type : End-of-sales/ End-of-life announcement<br>> <br>> Cisco announces the end-of-sale date for Cisco Unified Communications<br>> Manager Version 5.0.<br>> The last day to order the affected product(s) is June 30, 2008. Customers<br>> with active service<br> > contracts will continue to receive support from the Cisco Technical<br>> Assistance Center (TAC) as<br>> shown in Table 1 of the EoL bulletin.<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> For more details, refer to: <br>> <a href="http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/voicesw/ps556/prod_eol_notice0900aecd807329a8.html" target="_blank">http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/voicesw/ps556/prod_eol_notice0900aecd807329a8.html</a><br> ><br>> This email has been sent to <a href="mailto:lelio@uoguelph.ca">lelio@uoguelph.ca</a>.<br>> You are receiving this notice because you subscribed to the Cisco Product<br>> Alert Tool (PAT) and created the following profile(s): <br>> ac-one<br>><br>> Subscribe/unsubscribe instructions :<br>> If you choose not to receive these notices, or if you would like to make<br>> changes to your notification profile, please go to:<br>> <a href="http://tools.cisco.com/Support/PAT/do/ViewMyProfiles.do?local=en" target="_blank"> http://tools.cisco.com/Support/PAT/do/ViewMyProfiles.do?local=en</a><br>><br>><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>cisco-voip mailing list<br><a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net </a><br><a href="https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip" target="_blank">https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Craig Staffin<br><a href="mailto:Craig@staffin.org"> Craig@staffin.org</a><br>(H) 262-437-7313<br>(C) 262-613-6003 <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">cisco-voip mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip">https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip</a></div> </div><br></div></body></html>