<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I think so many versions have been being
created because of a few factors. One , Cisco pushed hard to get
companies to move to IPT Telephony early on. There were some early
adopters but there are still many companies just starting to move towards
UC. While making upgrades available to the early adopters with version
upgrades, etc and also contiuing to grow the customer base thay also had
to increase the feature set , move to a more reliable OS (Linux) and satisfy
the cries from users for standards based architecture(SIP), etc.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The point is that you have to make a
decision based on your organizations needs and wants. If 4.1.3 is
working for you and you can wait for other features down the road so be
it. This may also be dictated by company size and the perceived difficulty
of the upgrade. Some smaller companies may be able to do these upgrades
every year and virtually have no impact. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I wish that it was easier myself but
I assume many of these versions are spawned because users are looking for
certain features that require an upgrade but that in turn prevents them
from doing something else you wanted to. (e.g You an upgrade from 4.1.3
-> 6 but not 4.2.x -> 6). </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Anyway, hopefully these upgrades will
become a bit easier down the road.</font>
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<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">[cisco-voip] Moving / Upgrading 4.1(3)
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<br><font size=3>Starting to 'look' at what all is involved with moving
or upgrading to CM 6.0. Currently running CM 4.1(3) on two older
MCS servers, just a publisher and subscriber. If the budget allows
I am hoping to actually purchase new hardware for this and possibly run
both versions in parrallel for testing and what not.</font>
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<br><font size=3>Couple of things though I am concerned with is that I
seem to recall hearing something about licensing on 6.0 for phones? Apparently
Cisco has introduced some new licensing stuff with 6.0 that reminded me
of unity licensing in a way.</font>
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<br><font size=3>I suspect that by moving to 6.0 I would also have to look
into Unity and IPCCX compatibility issues and the best way to address dealing
with all things at once. If CM 6.0 requires IPCCX 6.0 and Unity ?
well thats a pretty big deal and really makes upgrading a huge pain in
the arse obviously. Its often difficult enough to upgrade one thing
and deal with those repercussions for a while, but to have to do all together
well thats just gonna suck. :-)</font>
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<br><font size=3>To me upgrading to 6.0 is really not something I believe
is worthwhile as I don't see what we are really going to gain from it.
However I am a tad concerned about letting things age you know, both
hardware and software. I do see some possible benefits and features
in some of the newer versions of either IPCCX and Unity, but those typically
say you need your CallManager to be a new version. So as long as
I stay humming along with 4.x, which in itself may be sufficient I can't
leverage some new feature I see available in one of the other products.</font>
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<br><font size=3>And finally I guess I would have to ask does anyone know
the latest news on 7.0 ? I have heard and read about release dates
in early 2009, but obviously nothing is concrete of course. It does
however leave the person like me wondering what to do of course. Even
if I were to dedicate myself to saying yes I am going to move to 6.0 this
year, well it would like not happen to Q3 or Q4 at which time we may very
well be hearing about actual 7.0 release dates being only months away.</font>
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<br><font size=3>Its sad that things have become what they are if you ask
me. So many versions in so a relatively short time. Whats worst
is the people on the fringes of things, the people who happen to hear about
this release or that and so they question why we are "so far behind"
on our callmanager versions, or who hear about an upcoming callmanager
release and wonder when will we move to this or that. Its gotten
to be about as bad as trying to keep up with Windows versions almost. Never
thought the phone system would become like this. Is it the price
you pay for innovation? And is there really all that much innovation
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