<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>I know it's like comparing apples to oranges, but it's very difficult to convince mgmt for all these extra dollars for upgrades, when the system is doing exactly what you need now.<br><br>I can appreciate EOL'ing a product, with no future feature upgrades, but you should be allowed to run the existing version for more than 3 years. People usually wait 1 or 2 years to let the wrinkles iron out, then jump on. The the EOL is announced. It's not pretty.<br><br>And please don't compare it to running Windows 95 on my PC. I think it's completely different. ;)<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>"Bad grammar makes me [sic]" - Tshirt<br><br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Voice Noob" <voicenoob@gmail.com><br>To: "Scott' 'Voll" <Scott.Voll@wesd.org>, "Cisco VoIPoE List" <cisco-voip@puck.nether.net><br>Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 5:06:59 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern<br>Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] EoS / EoL Contact Center Express 5.0<br><br>You still have 3 years until end of Support. I am moving all of my customers<br>to CUCM 7.x and UCCX 7.x . <br><br>Last Date of Support:<br>App. SW<br> The last date to receive service and support for the product. After this<br>date, all support services for the product are unavailable, and the product<br>becomes obsolete.<br> July 26, 2012<br> <br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net<br>[mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Voll, Scott<br>Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 3:50 PM<br>To: Cisco VoIPoE List<br>Subject: [cisco-voip] EoS / EoL Contact Center Express 5.0<br><br><rant><br><br>What the ???????<br><br>UCCx 5.0 EoS Announcement????<br><br>I just upgraded during the summer. Are they going to EoS CM 6.x tomorrow?<br><br>How the hay do you try to stay current? I can't upgrade that often. Admin<br>will kill me. Are others moving to CM 7 or waiting for 8 if your currently<br>on 6.x?<br><br></rant><br><br>Scott<br><br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Cisco Product Alert Tool<br>[mailto:cco-pat-bouncehandler@external.cisco.com]<br>Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 1:42 PM<br>To: Voll, Scott<br>Subject: End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco Unified<br>Contact Center Express 5.0<br><br>Message Type : End-of-sales/ End-of-life announcement<br><br>Cisco Systems announces the end-of-sale and end-of-life dates for the Cisco<br>Unified Contact Center Express 5.0. The last day to order the affected<br>product is July 27, 2009. Customers with active service contracts will<br>continue to receive support from the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC)<br>as listed in Table 1 in the EoL announcement.<br><br>For more details, refer to:<br>http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/voicesw/custcosw/ps5693/ps1846/en<br>d_of_life_notice_c51-513419.html<br><br>This email has been sent to scott.voll@wesd.org.<br>You are receiving this notice because you subscribed to the Cisco Product<br>Alert Tool (PAT) and created the following profile(s):<br>Cisco alerts<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>http://tools.cisco.com/Support/PAT/do/ViewMyProfiles.do?local=en<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>cisco-voip mailing list<br>cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br>https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>cisco-voip mailing list<br>cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br>https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip<br></div></body></html>