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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>don't forget 4.1 is EOL....so you won't get support
past May 2011. A long ways away, but just so you know.</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=d4rkf1ber@gmail.com href="mailto:d4rkf1ber@gmail.com">d4rk f1br</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=cisco-voip@puck.nether.net
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, January 30, 2008 3:27
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [cisco-voip] Moving / Upgrading
4.1(3) to CallManager 6.0 ?</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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. :-)</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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 to warrant it? Who
knows..</DIV>
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